Poetry and the culture of counsel: the 1532 Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed and John Heywood's Play of the weather -- 'To virtue persuaded'?: the persistent counsels of Sir Thomas Elyot -- The death of counsel: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Summary
Greg Walker examines the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights and prose writers in the early English Renaissance