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In From Princes to Pages, Gavin Schwartz-Leeper provides a
wide-ranging assessment of early modern literary characterizations
of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief minister from
1515-1529. Called the 'other king', Wolsey became a contested
symbol of the English Reformation through diverse literary
depictions that demonstrate the transformative pressures of this
complex period. The author traces the development of these
characterizations from the satires of John Skelton to Shakespeare
and Fletcher's Henry VIII, and offers new considerations of
canonical and lesser-known texts by George Cavendish, John Foxe,
and Raphael Holinshed. This study brings together multidisciplinary
analyses to demonstrate how Wolsey's literary lives reveal much
about the contemporary shaping of this period, and argues for new
ways to understand uses of the past in early modern England.
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