Mary Shelton and Her Tudor Literary Milieu
- Author / Editor
- Remley, Paul G.
Mary Shelton and Her Tudor Literary Milieu
- Published
- Peter C. Herman, ed. Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), pp. 40-77.
- Description
- Remley describes the Devonshire manuscript (British Library Additional 17492) and assesses the role and purposes of Shelton's writing it-e.g., protesting the incarceration of Margaret Douglas and Thomas Howard, reflecting Tudor practices of "making" poetry, and indicating the role of printed texts in Tudor manuscript anthologies. Shelton's pastiche of Chaucerian works (excerpts from TC, Anel, and apocrypha) derives from Thynne's edition and offers a "defense of its subjects' right to love at will."
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.