`A Mirror for Magistrates' in Context

`A Mirror for Magistrates' in Context
Author: Harriet Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107104351

The first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the Shakespearean age.

A Mirror for Magistrates and the de Casibus Tradition

A Mirror for Magistrates and the de Casibus Tradition
Author: Paul Budra
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802047175

Situates the often neglected collection of English Renaissance narrative poems A Mirror for Magistrates in the cultural context of its production, locating it not as a primitive form of tragedy, but as the epitome of the de casibus literary tradition.

A Mirror for Magistrates in Context

A Mirror for Magistrates in Context
Author: Harriet Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316715175

This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars, who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence as a series of tragic stories showing powerful princes and governors brought low by fate and enemy action. Scholars debate the challenging and radical nature of the Mirror's politics, its significance as a work of material culture, its relationship to oral culture as print was becoming ever more important, and the complicated evolution of its diverse texts. Other chapters discuss the importance of the book as the first major work that represented Roman history for a literary audience, the sly humour contained in the tragedies and their influence on major writers such as Spenser and Shakespeare.

Unperfect Histories

Unperfect Histories
Author: Harriet Archer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0198806175

A detailed exploration of a significant work of Tudor literature, The Mirror for Magistrates. The volume shows how the text is more than a moralistic collection of poems and how it is concerned with the transmission of national history, and the ways in which the past can be distorted, misremembered, misinterpreted, or lost.

A Mirror for Magistrates

A Mirror for Magistrates
Author: Scott C. Lucas
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781139626910

"Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistrates captivated readers and led numerous poets and playwrights to create their own Mirror-inspired works on the fallen figures of England's past. This modernized and annotated edition of Baldwin's collection - the first such edition ever published - provides modern readers with a clear and easily accessible text of the work. It also provides much-needed scholarly elucidations of its contents and glosses of its most difficult lines and unfamiliar words. The volume permits students of early modern literature and history to view Baldwin's work in a new light, allowing them to re-assess its contents and its poems' appeal to several generations of early modern readers and authors, including William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel"--

A Mirror for Magistrates

A Mirror for Magistrates
Author: Scott C. Lucas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316998029

Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistrates captivated readers and led numerous poets and playwrights to create their own Mirror-inspired works on the fallen figures of England's past. This modernized and annotated edition of Baldwin's collection - the first such edition ever published - provides modern readers with a clear and easily accessible text of the work. It also provides much-needed scholarly elucidations of its contents and glosses of its most difficult lines and unfamiliar words. The volume permits students of early modern literature and history to view Baldwin's work in a new light, allowing them to re-assess its contents and its poems' appeal to several generations of early modern readers and authors, including William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel.

Mirror for Magistrates

Mirror for Magistrates
Author: William Baldwin
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2015-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296934767

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