Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540

by Jon Robinson

Book Overview

The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The author examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138619183
• ISBN13: 9781138619180
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"