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Greg Walker

John Heywood

Comedy and Survival in Tudor England

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John Heywood was an important literary and theatrical pioneer in his own right, but he is also a revealing lens through which to view the wider tumultuous history of the sixteenth century. He was, through the period from the mid-1520s to the 1560s, as near to a celebrity as Tudor England possessed, famed for his 'merry' persona and good humour. But his public image concealed a deeper engagement with religious and political history. Enduringly resistant to extremism,he variously entertained, counselled, and cautioned his readers and audiences through four reigns, finding himself, as regimes changed and religious policies shifted, successively… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-259229-3
  • EAN: 9780192592293
  • Produktnummer: 34128705
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 496 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'483 KB

Über den Autor


Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he was previously Masson Professor of English, and Head of the School of Literature, Languages and Cultures between 2009 and 2011. Before that he was Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Historical Society, The English Association, The Society of Antiquaries ofLondon, and the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Norway). His research interests are in late medieval and Tudor literature and drama, and the cultural history of the sixteenth century, but he has also written on the cinema of the 1930s and progressive rock music. With Elaine M. Treharne, he isco-editor of the Oxford Textual Perspectives monograph series.

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