Recently added articles from Yearbook of English Studies:
Guest editor's preface.(Tudor literature)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008; ... For successive decades Tudor literature has had to fight for its place on the university curriculum. Whilst as a field of academic enquiry it has continued to enjoy lively attention from practising academics, independent researchers, and graduate students, its foothold on the undergraduate ...
Introduction: new lamps for old?(Tudor Literature historical interpretation)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The term 'Tudor literature' is increasingly being used to denote a new period, but it has not yet become certain when this period begins or ends. This chapter argues that there are two ways of interpreting the term: a 'long' Tudor period, which tracks the royal fortunes of the house of ...
Counterfet countenaunce: (mis)representation and the challenge to allegory in sixteenth-century morality plays.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... This chapter examines the use of personification allegory in a number of sixteenth-century morality plays, focusing in particular on the vices' use of assumed names in Skelton's Magnyfycence and Udall's Respublica. It argues that these plays manifest a striking self-consciousness about the ...
The defence of religious orthodoxy in John Heywood's The Pardoner and the Frere.
Jan 01, 2008; ... In The Pardoner and the Frere an attack on religious abuses is combined with a positive belief in the Church and a defence of the Catholic faith. Corrupt churchmen are satirized and the need for religious reform is stressed, an issue in which King Henry VIII is called upon for support in a ...
Print, patronage, and the reception of continental reform: 1521-1603.
Jan 01, 2008; ... English translators, patrons, publishers, and printers played a vital role in the dissemination of continental Protestant reform within England. Their presentation of works by nineteen important continental Protestant reformers underwent notable shifts that mirror changes in official ...