Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reform
- Author / Editor
- Walker, Greg.
Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reform
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- xi, 556 pp.
- Description
- Walker seeks to understand reactions to the rise of tyranny during the rule of Henry VIII-- the "unprecedented changes of the 1530s and 1540s"--seen through records left by "poets, prose-writers, scholars, and dramatists who wrote, revised, edited, or printed works of fiction and advice" during this period. Chapters 4-5 (pp. 56-99) emphasize Sir Brian Tuke's involvement with William Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer's works, considering the "politics" of editing and the implications of the apocrypha included in the edition, the importance granted to CT, and the recurrent emphasis on peace. Other works considered at length are John Heywood's Play of the Weather, Sir Thomas Elyot's Book Named the Governor, and works of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.