From princes to pages : : the literary lives of Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor England's 'other king' / / by Gavin Schwartz-Leeper.
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 l...
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| Superior document: | Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, v. 202 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.