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Unperfect Histories
A detailed exploration of a significant work of Tudor literature, The Mirror for Magistrates. The volume shows how the text is more than a moralistic collection of poems and how it is concerned with the transmission of national history, and the ways in which the past can be distorted, misremembered, misinterpreted, or lost.
Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England
This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in its double sense of something shared and something base, and it argues that making common the work of God is at the heart of the English Reformation just as making common the literature of antiquity and of early modern Europe is at the heart of the English Renaissance. Its central question is 'why was the Renaissance in England so late?' That question is addressed in terms of the relationship between Humanism and Protestantism and the tensions ...
`A Mirror for Magistrates' in Context
The first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the Shakespearean age.
The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England
The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past. Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of theOld English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary soc...
Selected Essays on George Gascoigne
This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those later Elizabethans - including Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare - who represent the great flowering of the English literary renaissance. Gascoigne rarely returned to a genre, writing prose fiction, blank verse, plays, sonnets, narrative verse, courtly entertainments, satire and many other literary forms, and the later Elizabethans were fully aware of his significance. These essays are organised into three main sections: influences upon Gascoigne, such as Skelton; Gascoigne’s influence on others, including Spenser; and finally a reassessment of his critical neglect and the story behind his marginalised status in the English literary canon. As only the second multi-authored essay collection on Gascoigne, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of this important and often misunderstood writer.
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Cathy and Company & the Green Ghost
Three club members investigate a ghost who is mysteriously leaving them notes.
His To Command: The Housekeeper: The Prince's Chambermaid / The Billionaire's Housekeeper Mistress / The Tuscan Tycoon's Pregnant Housekeeper
Cathy is used to making the beds – not slipping between their sheets!
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Hutchins-Jennens
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
The Frozen Curse
Journey to the very edge of the world in the second title in this INCREDIBLE fantasy adventure series. Perfect for fans of Skandar and Philip Pullman Oswin starts a second year in Tundra at the school for Ice Apprentices just as the Great Freeze threatens. He may have driven back the monsters but masters and pupils are disappearing and trees with monstrous faces seem to be on the attack. When Oswin fails a test, he's kicked out of the school for good. Tundra is running out of time and soon everyone will freeze to death . . . 'An extraordinary fantasy debut' A. F. Steadman on Ice Apprentices “North's writing has verve!” The Observer "A page-turning fantasy adventure in a world of ice, ...
