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Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England (Hardcover, New)
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Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England (Hardcover, New)
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Famed for his learning, wordplay, fantasy and insight, the French
writer Francois Rabelais (1494?-1553) was also widely known for
scoffing, supposed atheism, salacious writing and irresponsible
whimsy. This book explores Renaissance England's response to the
humorous yet difficult and ambiguous Rabelais. Anne Lake Prescott
describes in detail how a host of English writers - Philip Sidney,
Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Donne, James I, Shakespeare and
Michael Drayton, among many others - collectively and sometimes
individually appreciated and condemned Rabelais. Prescott documents
the extent to which Rabelais's name and work permeated Renaissance
English literature and thought. Tudor and Stuart writers quoted
him, told funny or scandalous stories about him, imitated him,
abhorred him, even judged Rabelais without reading him. In this
wide range of responses, from the urbanely appreciative to the
pompous and grumpy, Prescott finds understandings of cultural
ambivalence and the ambiguities of literary reception. She shows
that precisely because Rabelais's reputation was contradictory,
appropriating his name or words was useful in Renaissance England
for expressing division on topics ranging from authorship and sex
to heresy and political secrets.
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