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Informationen zum Autor Cenarth is a Welsh name pronounced Kenarth. For ABC Radio he wrote The Invisible Radio Show, The Story of Jazz, The Elements of Music and The History of Rock 'n Roll. He has created dozens of plays and musicals with performances in some 50 countries. His interest in Sherlock Holmes involves writing three plays, a musical, five children's books, a novel and presenting his one-man show G'day Sherlock. His one-woman play, Aunt Georgy, about the private life of Charles Dickens, toured, played to outstanding reviews and has since been filmed. He wrote and performed the play Saucy Pat, the life of Patrick Bronte, father of the famous writers. His novel Cassocked Savage is based on that play.His recent stage shows include The Corgi Queen, about the late Queen Elizabeth 11, and As Farce As You Can, a comedy where the cast lose weight. His novels include crime fiction, The Joanna Best Mysteries (8 books), World War Two thrillers, The Plum Trilogy, and The Stationmaster Miracle series about railway history 1910-1965.His stage scripts can be read at www.foxplays.com His books are listed at www.cenfoxbooks.com Klappentext This book reassesses Renaissance English literature and its place in Elizabethan society. It examines, in particular, the role of Italianate literary imitation in addressing the ethical and political issues of the sixteenth century. In doing so, it reveals the significance of the Calvinist discourse of English Protestantism as a stimulus to literary creation. It demonstrates how the clash between the values of the Continental system from which England was separating and the assumptions of the Elizabethan religious settlement of 1559 prompted writers to use creative imitation as a means of exploring the problematical relationship between the two. At the heart of this activity was a need for English men and women to formulate what their new identity should be, both at the individual and national levels. A radically new picture emerges from this investigation both of the literature of the English Renaissance, and also of the English Reformation itself. The author shows how imitation of Italianate literary culture had a much greater influence on the formation of modern British identity than has been hitherto supposed. He demonstrates that it also invested Renaissance English literature with many of its most characteristic attributes. Above all, the English Renaissance and Reformation are shown to be far more closely linked than previous scholars have recognized. Zusammenfassung This volume reassesses Renaissance English literature and its place in Elizabethan society. It examines! in particular! the role of Italianate literary imitation in addressing the ethical and political issues of the 16th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Reception of Italian Literary Culture: Motives and Dynamics. 2. Wyatt! Surrey! and the Onset of English Petrarchism. 3. Elizabethan Petrarchism and the Protestant Location of Self. 4. Ethic and Politic Considerations: Spenser! Sidney! and the Uses of Italianate Pastoral. 5. Epic and the Formation of National Identity: Ariosto! Tasso! and The Faerie Queene. 6. Appraising 'The Seeming Truths' of the Times: the Italianate Plays of Shakespeare. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index. ...
