The Flower of Friendship: A Renaissance Dialogue Contesting Marriage - Hardcover

Edmund Tilney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801424542 ISBN 13: 9780801424540

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Edmund Tilney dedicated to Queen Elizabeth in 1568 a spirited dialogue concerning appropriate behavior in marriage. Extraordinarily popular for a generation following its first publication, it is available here for the first time in a critical edition that includes a comprehensive essay by Valerie Wayne.

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Review

"As Wayne demonstrates in her introduction, The Flower of Friendship is a wonderfully witty dialogue treating a key issue in Tudor culture. Clearly, it is an important and revealing index to the ideology of Tudor England, a touchstone in discussions of gender relationships as they are fictionalized in Renaissance literature."

(Elizabeth H. Hageman, University of New Hampshire)

"The book is a delight to read, and the combination of critical edition and general introduction to the subject is an especially attractive one. Wayne offers a much-needed introduction to sixteenth-century ideologies of marriage, one that is meticulous, rigorous, and persuasive. She is the first to layout a carefully theorized reading of marriage treatises as a specific genre."

(Janis Butler Holm, Ohio University)

Review

"Valerie Wayne's fine critical edition of Edmund Tilney's 1568 discourse concerning duties in marriage, The Flower of Friendship, is a very welcome contribution to this larger enterprise. The text itself takes the form of a dialogue involving several participants in the contemporary debate over the ends of marriage and the relative duties of husbands and wives."

(Brian Patton Renaissance Quarterly)

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801424542
• ISBN 13: 9780801424540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Valerie Wayne