George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne
Author: Gillian Austen
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781843841579

First modern full-length study of the Elizabethan poet George Gascoigne.

Selected Essays on George Gascoigne

Selected Essays on George Gascoigne
Author: Gillian Austen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000642097

This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those later Elizabethans - including Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare - who represent the great flowering of the English literary renaissance. Gascoigne rarely returned to a genre, writing prose fiction, blank verse, plays, sonnets, narrative verse, courtly entertainments, satire and many other literary forms, and the later Elizabethans were fully aware of his significance. These essays are organised into three main sections: influences upon Gascoigne, such as Skelton; Gascoigne’s influence on others, including Spenser; and finally a reassessment of his critical neglect and the story behind his marginalised status in the English literary canon. As only the second multi-authored essay collection on Gascoigne, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of this important and often misunderstood writer.

A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres

A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres
Author: George Gascoigne
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 781
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780198117797

This is the only edition of George Gascoigne's A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres to respect the integrity of the first edition, which he published as an anonymous anthology in 1573. Earlier editors either based their work on The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire, self-censored and published in1575, or omitted the two plays, Supposes and Jocasta. But, from a bibliographical point of view, the plays are an integral part of the first edition, and the work that suffers most from revision is Gascoigne's masterpiece, The Adventures of Master F.J. The critical apparatus of this edition allowsthe reader to reconstruct the changes Gascoigne made to The Posies, and all the works which appear there for the first time are included. Half of the works in this edition, including the plays and Gascoigne's longest poem, `The fruites of Warre', have never received any commentary before. The commentary closely studies Gascoigne's use of his sources, especially in his translations from the Italian, and situates his works in theirliterary and social milieux. It also includes all of the extensive marginal notes that Gabriel Harvey made in his copy of The Posies. The biographical introduction corrects a number of mistakes in Prouty's standard biography and, in particular, offers a fuller, more accurate account of Gascoigne'smilitary service in the Netherlands.

Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts

Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts
Author: Douglas S. Pfeiffer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2022
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198714165

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores authorial character as an instrument of textual analysis in the scholarship of early Renaissance literature.

The Index Library

The Index Library
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1895
Genre: Court records
ISBN:

For list of publications see covers, pt. 28/30, April/June, 1890, p. x; pt. 82, December 1900, p. iii-iv.

The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558–1582

The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558–1582
Author: Stephen Hamrick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351893327

Stephen Hamrick demonstrates how poets writing in the first part of Elizabeth I's reign proved instrumental in transferring Catholic worldviews and paradigms to the cults and early anti-cults of Elizabeth. Stephen Hamrick provides a detailed analysis of poets who used Petrarchan poetry to transform many forms of Catholic piety, ranging from confession and transubstantiation to sacred scriptures and liturgical singing, into a multivocal discourse used to fashion, refashion, and contest strategic political, religious, and courtly identities for the Queen and for other Court patrons. These poets, writers previously overlooked in many studies of Tudor culture, include Barnabe Googe, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Watson. Stephen Hamrick here shows that the nature of the religious reformations in Tudor England provided the necessary contexts required for Petrarchanism to achieve its cultural centrality and artistic complexity. This study makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the complex interaction among Catholicism, Petrachanism, and the second English Reformation.