Court politics, culture and literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540 / Jon Robinson.

London [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2018.

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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.

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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

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