This revisionary study of the origins of courtly literature reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through new research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. In close readings of early Tudor poetry, court drama, letters, manuscript anthologies and printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a "Pandaric" world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters, and transgressive performances.
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"...Lerer has written an elegant book. His chapters are grounded in close readings of literary texts, and he has presented a nuanced, challenging argument in well-turned phrases free of theoretical jargon." Mary Hill Cole, Mary Baldwin College
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"Lerer also offers some strong readings, especially of King Henry's love letters. And he comments well on manuscript collections of verse. This book belongs in libraries supporting graduate work in English literature and history." E.D. Hill, Choice
"Lerer's is one of the most impressive of the volumes I've read." Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books
"Lerer also offers some strong readings, especially of King Henry's love letters. And he comments well on manuscript collections of verse. This book belongs in libraries supporting graduate work in English literature and history." E.D. Hill, Choice
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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly literature reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through new research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. In close readings of early Tudor poetry, court drama, letters, manuscript anthologies and printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a 'Pandaric' world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters, and transgressive performances.
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conusaunce damours, youre dore, minion politics, epistolary love, conscribendis epistolis, epistolary friendship, verse epistle, manuscript anthology, personal anthologies, personal anthology, privy chamber, emphases mine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pastime of Pleasure, The Complete Poems, Middle English, Thomas Howard, Conforte of Louers, Humphrey Wellys, Anne Boleyn, Phyllyp Sparowe, Margaret Douglas, Stephen Hawes, Edward Hall, Francis Bryan, Tudor England, John Poyntz, Courtly Abusyon, John Skelton, King Henry, Wyatt's Satire, Counterfet Countenaunce, Die Liebesbriefe, Jane Scrope, Luiz Carroz, Tottel's Miscellany, Clokyd Colusyon, Katherine of Aragon New!
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conusaunce damours, youre dore, minion politics, epistolary love, conscribendis epistolis, epistolary friendship, verse epistle, manuscript anthology, personal anthologies, personal anthology, privy chamber, emphases mine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pastime of Pleasure, The Complete Poems, Middle English, Thomas Howard, Conforte of Louers, Humphrey Wellys, Anne Boleyn, Phyllyp Sparowe, Margaret Douglas, Stephen Hawes, Edward Hall, Francis Bryan, Tudor England, John Poyntz, Courtly Abusyon, John Skelton, King Henry, Wyatt's Satire, Counterfet Countenaunce, Die Liebesbriefe, Jane Scrope, Luiz Carroz, Tottel's Miscellany, Clokyd Colusyon, Katherine of Aragon New!
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- Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford World's Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer on 61 pages
- The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Wyatt on 30 pages
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on 9 pages
- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on 8 pages
- Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts by Peter C. Herman on 8 pages
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- Chaucer's Jobs (New Middle Ages) by David R. Carlson in Back Matter
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