:The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998)

Abstract

Introduction - Tudor literature, drab or tarnished? Part 1 Earlier Tudor literature: subversion in The Towneley Cycle - strategies for evil sceptical historiography - Thomas More's History of Richard III To seek the place where I myself had lost - acts of memory in the poetry of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey William Turner's religious polemic as a polyvalent cultural intervention As a shadow to a - heresy, treason and the law in the 16th century the earliest Tudor witch in print - the examination of John Walsh. Part 2 Elizabethan poetry and prose: revenge of the angel Gabriel - Harvey's A Nobleman's Suit to a Country Maid late Tudor narrative voice(s) - Philip Sidney and Barnaby rich remapping Elizabethan court poetry Philip's Phoenix? - Mary Sidney Herbert and the identity of author veiling Medusa - Arthur's shield in The Fairy Queen fashioning a Tudor body - civility and state-formation in The Fairy Queen and A View of the Present State of Ireland. Part 3 Shakespeare and the drama: the British myth in Tudor drama of clothing and coinage Shakespeare's Henry V - Tudor or Jacobean? the role of body images in the Tudor myth and its subversion in Shakespeare's history plays since forged invention former time defaced - representing Tudor history in the 1590s.