Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII : Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
- Author / Editor
- Lerer, Seth.
Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII : Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit
- Published
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 252 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, no. 18.
- Description
- Assesses various aspects of Tudor political and literary culture (e.g., privacy and voyeurism, theatricality, letter-writing and -reading), discussing Pandarus and the Renaissance reception of TC as tropes for understanding such concerns. Tudor literary subjectivity existed at the intersection of courtly power and intrigue, sexuality, and inward awareness--all qualities associated with Pandarus, who fascinated Tudor readers. Lerer discusses the "Pandaric" features of commonplace books (Devonshire manuscript and Humphrey Wellys), Henry VIII's letters to Anne Boleyn, court reports of Luiz Carroz (Spanish ambassador), and poetry by Stephen Hawes, John Skelton, and Thomas Wyatt.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion .
- Troilus and Criseyde.