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Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland (Hardcover)
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Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland (Hardcover)
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In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere
sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read
poetic genre in its own right. This fact has been hidden from
literary historians by the nature of the genre itself: defamation
was rigorously prosecuted by state and local authorities throughout
the period. Thus most (but not all) libelling, in verse or prose,
was confined to manuscript circulation. This comprehensive survey
of the genre identifies all sixteenth-century verse libel texts,
printed and transcribed. It makes fifty-two of the least familiar
of these poems accessible for further study by providing critical
texts with glosses and explanatory notes. In reconstructing the
contexts of these poems, we identify a number of the libellers,
their targets, the circumstances of attack, and the workings of the
scribal networks that disseminated many of them over wide areas,
often for decades. The book's concentration on poems restricted to
manuscript circulation throws substantial new light on the nature
of Renaissance scribal culture. As poetic technicians, its
practitioners were among the age's most experimental and creative.
They produced some of the most popular, widely read works of their
age and beyond, while their output established the foundation upon
which the seventeenth-century tradition of verse libel developed
organically.
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