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Acknowledgements | |
Conventions and list of abbreviations | |
List of illustrations | |
Notes on contributors | |
Prologue: The travails of Tudor Literature, Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank | |
1485-1529 | |
Caxton and the invention of printing | |
Dramatic theory and Lucres' 'discretion': the plays of Henry Medwall | |
Stephen Hawes and courtly education | |
Having the last word: manuscript, print, and the envoy in the poetry of John Skelton | |
All for love: Lord Berners and the enduring, evolving romance | |
1530-1559 | |
Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the printing of religious propaganda | |
Rhetoric, conscience and the playful positions of Sir Thomas More | |
John Bale and controversy: readers and audiences | |
Sir Thomas Elyot and the bonds of community | |
John Heywood and court drama | |
Thomas Wyatt and Francis Bryan: plainness and dissimulation | |
Piety and poetry: English psalms from Miles Coverdale to Mary Sidney | |
Katherine Parr and her circle | |
John Leland and his heirs: the topography of England | |
Biblical allusion and argument in Luke Shepherd's verse satires | |
Reforming the reformers: Robert Crowley and Nicholas Udall | |
William Baldwin and the Tudor imagination | |
Directions for English: Thomas Wilson's Art of Rhetoric, George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy, and the Search for Vernacular Eloquence | |
Order and Disorder: John Proctor's History of Wyatt's Rebellion (1554) | |
Marian political allegory: John Heywood's The Spider and the Fly | |
Hall's chronicle and A Mirror for Magistrates: history and the tragic pattern | |
A place in the shade: George Cavendish and de casibus tragedy | |
What is my nation?: language, verse and politics in Tudor translations of Virgil's Aeneid | |
Thomas Hoby, William Thomas and mid-Tudor travel to Italy | |
Popularizing courtly poetry: Tottel's 'Miscellany' and its progeny | |
1560-1579 | |
Minerva's men: horizontal nationhood and the literary production of Googe, Turberville, and Gascoigne | |
'For This is True or Els I do Lye': Thomas Smith, William Bullein and Mid-Tudor Dialogue | |
English Seneca: Heywood to Hamlet | |
Political tragedy in the 1560s: Cambises and Gorboduc | |
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 1563-1583: antiquity and the affect of history | |
Tragical histories, tragical tales | |
Foresters, ploughmen and shepherds: versions of Tudor pastoral | |
Interludes, economics and the Elizabethan stage | |
Ovidian reflections in Gascoigne's Steel Glass | |
The art of war: martial poetics from Henry Howard to Philip Sidney | |
Thomas Whythorne and first-person life-writing in the sixteenth century | |
Pageants and Propaganda: Robert Langham's Letter and George Gascoigne's Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth | |
Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadias | |
1580-1603 | |
Gabriel Harvey's choleric writing | |
The intimacy of manuscript and the pleasure of print: literary culture from The Schoolmaster to Euphues | |
Robert Greene's Pandosto and George Pettie's Palace of Pleasure | |
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Nathaniel Woodes's The Conflict of Conscience | |
Fictive Acts: Thomas Nashe and the mid-Tudor legacy | |
'Hear my tale or kiss my tail!': The Old Wife's Tale, Gammer Gurton's Needle and the popular cultures of Tudor comedy | |
Epilogue: Edmund Spenser and the passing of Tudor literature | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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