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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782323203321

Autore

Robinson J. R. W

Titolo

Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017

©2008

ISBN

1-351-12580-X

1-138-35393-0

9780823086421

1-138-61918-3

1-351-12656-3

1-351-12542-7

1-281-54498-1

9786611544980

0-7546-8218-8

Edizione

[1st.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scottish literature - To 1700 - History and criticism

Politics and literature - England - History - 16th century

Politics and literature - Scotland - History - 16th century

Courts and courtiers in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Conventions; Introduction; 1 Poet, Court and Culture; 2 Patronage and Panegyric Verse; 3 The 'Inclusive and Exclusive' Rhetorical Strategy of David Lyndsay's The Dreme and The Complaynt; 4 Counsel, Service, Kingship and the Moral Reality of the Court; 5 The 'Honestye' of Thomas Wyatt's Court Critique and the Unstable 'I' of his Verse; 6 The Murky Waters of Court Politics and Poetic Propaganda; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

"The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. Author Jon Robinson examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts of the period 1500 to 1540. The first two chapters discuss the pervasive influence of patronage upon court literature through an analysis of the panegyric verse that surrounded the coronation of Henry VIII. The rhetorical strategies adopted by courtiers within their literary works, however, differed, depending on whether the writer was, at the time of writing the verse or drama, excluded or included from the environs of the court. The different, often elaborate rhetorical strategies are, through close readings of selected verse, delineated and discussed in chapter three on David Lyndsay and chapter four on Thomas Wyatt and Thomas Elyot."--Provided by publisher.