From princes to pages : : the literary lives of Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor England's 'other king' / / by Gavin Schwartz-Leeper.

• Superior document: Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, v. 202
• Author: Schwartz-Leeper, Gavin.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 202.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In From Princes to Pages , Gavin Schwartz-Leeper provides a wide-ranging assessment of early modern literary characterizations of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII’s chief minister from 1515-1529. Called the ‘other king’, Wolsey became a contested symbol of the English Reformation through diverse literary depictions that demonstrate the transformative pressures of this complex period. The author traces the development of these characterizations from the satires of John Skelton to Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII, and offers new considerations of canonical and lesser-known texts by George Cavendish, John Foxe, and Raphael Holinshed. This study brings together multidisciplinary analyses to demonstrate how Wolsey’s literary lives reveal much about the contemporary shaping of this period, and argues for new ways to understand uses of the past in early modern England.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- Introduction / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- 1 Rayling and Scoffery: Henrician Portrayals of Cardinal Wolsey / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- 2 “A vysage of trwthe”: George Cavendish’s Characterizations of Wolsey / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- 3 “The history of a certaine ridiculous spectacle”: Literary Representations of Cardinal Wolsey in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- 4 “Handling This Story Effectualie”: Editorializing Wolsey in Holinshed’s Chronicles / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- 5 “Griped by Meaner Persons”?: Wolsey in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII or, All Is True / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- Conclusion: Traduced by Ignorant Tongues? / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- Bibliography / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper -- Index / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper.