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Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English Renaissance. It shows the profoundeffects that political oppression had on the literary production of the years from 1528 to 1547, and how English writers in turn strove to mitigate, redirect, and finally resist that oppression. The result was the destruction of a number of forms that had dominated the literary production oflate-medieval England, but also the creation of new forms that were to dominate the writing of the following centuries. Paradoxically, the tyranny of Henry VIII gave birth to many modes of writing now seen to be characteristic of the English literary Renaissance. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)820.9003Literature English & Old English literatures English literature in more than one form History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one formLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |