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Author Walker, Greg, 1959-

Title Writing under tyranny : English literature and the Henrician Reformation / Greg Walker
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 556 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
Literature and state -- England -- History -- 16th century
Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Political and social views
Protest literature, English -- History and criticism
Reformation -- England.
Reformation in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern.
Intellectual life.
Literature and state.
Politics and government.
Politics and literature.
Protest literature, English.
Reformation.
Reformation in literature.
Religion and literature.
Literatur
König Motiv
Unterdrückung Motiv
Fürstenspiegel
Tirannie.
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1509-1547. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056885
Subject England.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0199283338
9780199283330
9781429492973
142949297X
9780191712630
0191712639