The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

Author: David Bevington

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-11-19

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780521594363

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A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.

Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

Author: David Norbrook

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780199247189

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This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.

Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries

Author: Book Builders LLC.

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 1438108699

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Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.

Criticism and Compliment
Criticism and Compliment

Author: Kevin Sharpe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780521386616

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Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by critics and characterised by historians as propaganda for Charles I's absolutism penned by sycophantic hirelings. Kevin Sharpe questions the assumptions on which these evaluations have been based. Challenging the traditional argument for a polarity between court and country cultures in early Stuart England, he re-reads the plays, poems and masques as primary documents of political attitudes articulated at court. Far from being confined to a decade or a party, the courtly literature of the 1630s is relocated within the broader humanist tradition of counsel. Through the language of love - a language, it is argued, that was part of the discourse of politics in Caroline England - the court poets criticised fundamental premises of the King's political ideology, and counselled traditional and moderate modes of government.

The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660
The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660

Author: Robert Wilcher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780521661836

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In The Writing of Royalism, Robert Wilcher charts the political and ideological development of 'royalism' between 1628 and 1660. His study of the literature and propaganda produced by those who adhered to the crown during the civil wars and their aftermath takes in many kinds of writing to provide a comprehensive account of the emergence of a partisan literature in support of the English monarchy and Church. Wilcher situates a wide range of minor and canonical texts in the tumultuous political contexts of the time, helpfully integrating them into a detailed historical narrative. He illustrates the role of literature in forging a party committed to the military defence of royalist values and determined to sustain them in defeat. The Writing of Royalism casts light on the complex phenomenon of 'royalism' by making available a wealth of material that should be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars.