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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII - Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit (Paperback, Revised)
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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII - Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the
culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor
English literary life. Through research into the reception of
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became
the model of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel,
secrecy and eroticism informed the behaviour of poets, lovers,
diplomats and even Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the
poetry of Hawes and Skelton, the drama of the court, the letters of
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the writings of Thomas Wyatt, and
manuscript anthologies and early printed books, Seth Lerer
illuminates a 'Pandaric' world of displayed bodies, surreptitious
letters and transgressive performances. In the process, he redraws
the boundaries between the medieval and the Renaissance and
illustrates the centrality of the verse epistle to the construction
of subjectivity.
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