The Flower of Friendship. A Renaissance Dialogue contesting Marriage.

TILNEY, EDMUND [VALERIE WAYNE - ED.

ISBN 10: 0801497051 / ISBN 13: 9780801497056

Published by Ithaca-London, Cornell University Press. 1992, 1992

About this Item

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: frontispiece, xiv, 198pp., [ij], illustrations, notes on the text, textual notes, explanatory notes, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.

Seller Inventory # 156629

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Flower of Friendship. A Renaissance Dialogue contesting Marriage.
• Publisher: Ithaca-London, Cornell University Press. 1992
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801497051
• ISBN 13: 9780801497056
• Binding: Soft cover

About this title

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.

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)