Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII

Abstract

Part 1 Patronage: Literary Patronage - The System and its Obligations John Skelton and the Bowge of Courte - Self-Analysis and Discovery Beatus Ille - The Eclogues of Alexander Barclay Patronage and Pedigree - The Dream Visions of Stephen Hawes. Part 2 Humanism: Suggestions of Mistrust - Erasmus and The Praise of Folly Paradoxical Equivocation - The Self-Subversiveness of Thomas More's Utopia Facts and Fantasies - Thomas More and Tudor Historiography. Part 3 The Cardinal: the Bull-Calf and Popinjay - Origins of the Quarrel between Wolsey and Skelton From Allegory to Action - Skelton's Speke Parott Widening the Audience - Collyn Clout, and Why Come Ye Nat to Courte? The Aftermath - A Garlande of Laurell and Skelton's Later Works. Part 4 Reform and the King: Propaganda and Polemic - The Retreat from Imaginative Fiction After 1525 Acting in the Play at Hand - The Political Role of Early Tudor Drama The Unquiet Mind of Sir Thomas Wyatt Memento Mori - The Biblical Paraphrases of the Earl of Surrey.

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