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Published by University of Massachusetts Press, 2009
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. A new tightly bound hardcover in like DJ. Black cloth on boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underling. b&w illustrations. Typeface set in Adobe Garamond Pro. Contains a bibliography and an index. x., 275 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read in Tudor England as the historical verse tragedy collection A Mirror for Magistrates. For over sixty years (1559-1621), this compendium of tragic monologues presented in the voices of fallen political figures from England's past remained almost constantly in print, offering both exemplary warnings to English rulers and inspiring models for literary authors, including Spenser and Shakespeare. In a striking departure from previous scholarship, Scott Lucas shows that modern critics have misconstrued the purpose of the tragic verse narratives of the Mirror, approaching them primarily as uncontroversial meditations on abstract political and philosophical doctrines. Lucas revises this view, revealing many of the Mirror tragedies to be works topically applicable in form and politically contentious in nature. Lucas returns the earliest poems of A Mirror for Magistrates to the troubled context of their production, the tumultuous reign of the Catholic Queen Mary (1553-1558). As Protestants suffering from the traumatic collapse of King Edward VI's godly rule (1547-1553) and from the current policies of Mary's government, the Mirror authors radically reshaped their poems' historical sources in order to craft emotionally moving narratives designed to provide models for interpreting the political failures of Edward VI's reign and to offer urgent warnings to Marian magistrates. Lucas's study also reveals how, in later poems, the Mirror authors issued oblique appeals to Queen Elizabeth's officers, boldly demanding that they allow the realm of the literary to stand as an unfettered discursive arena of public controversy. Lucas thus provides a provocative new approach to this seminal but long-misunderstood collection, one that restores the Mirror to its rightful place as one of the greatest works of sixteenth-century English political literature.
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Condition: as new. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xi,291 pp. (Massachusetts studies in early modern culture). - This work offers a bold reassessment of a major work of sixteenth-century English literature. Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read in Tudor England as the historical verse tragedy collection A Mirror for Magistrates . For over sixty years (1559-1621), this compendium of monologues presented in the voices of fallen political figures from England's past remained almost constantly in print, offering both exemplary warnings to English rulers and inspiring models for literary authors, including Spenser and Shakespeare. In a striking departure from previous scholarship, Scott Lucas shows that modern critics have misconstrued the purpose of the tragic verse narratives of the Mirror, approaching them primarily as uncontroversial meditations on abstract political and philosophical doctrines. Lucas revises this view, revealing many of the Mirror tragedies to be works topically applicable in form and politically contentious in nature. Lucas returns the earliest poems of A Mirror for Magistrates to the troubled context of their production, the tumultuous reign of the Catholic Queen Mary (1553-1558). As Protestants suffering from the traumatic collapse of King Edward VI's 'godly' rule (1547-1553) and from the current policies of Mary's government, the Mirror authors radically reshaped their poem's historical sources in order to craft emotionally moving narratives designed to provide models for interpreting the political failures of Edward VI's reign and to offer urgent warnings to Marian magistrates. Lucas' study also reveals how, in later poems, the Mirror authors issued oblique appeals to Queen Elizabeth's officers, boldly demanding that they allow the realm of 'the literary' to stand as an unfettered discursive arena of public controversy. Lucas thus provides a provocative new approach to this seminal but long-misunderstood collection, one that restores the Mirror to its rightful place as one of the greatest works of sixteenth-century English political literature. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9781558497061. Keywords : LITERARY CRITICISM,
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Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read as the historical verse tragedy collection "A Mirror for Magistrates". This work shows that modern critics have misconstrued the purpose of the tragic verse narratives of the Mirror, approaching them as uncontroversial meditations on abstract political and philosophical doctrines.
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Sehr gut. X, 275 p. ein tadelloses Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / an excellent copy without any markings. - Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 A Memorial of suche Princes: Creation and Contexts 2 The Consolation of Tragedy: "Edmund Duke of Somerset," "Humfrey Duke of Gloucester," and the Fall of the "Good Duke" of Somerset 3 "Syr Thomas of Wudstocke" and the "Unfortunate" Death of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset 4 A Memorial of suche Princes and the Loss of Imperial England 5 Royal Power and the Abuse of the Law in A Memorial of suche Princes 6 The Seconde Parte of the Mirrour for Magistrates and the Future of Political Literature in Elizabeth s Reign Conclusion: The Mirror and Its Legacy Appendix: The Growth and Development of William Baldwin s A Mirror for Magistrates Bibliography Index. ISBN 9781558497061 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 608.
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