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The first comprehensive scholarly biography of the Tudor playwright, poet, musician, singer, proverb-collector, and satirist, John Heywood.
List of contents
- Preface
- 1: Origins: Early Years: Johan Johan and Witty and Witless
- 2: Faith, Hope, and Mendacity: The Four PP
- 3: Interlude: The Annus Mirabilis of 1529
- 4: Cynicism and Hope: Gentleness and Nobility
- 5: Conscience and Satire in A Play of Love
- 6: Complaining about the Weather: Heywood, Thomas More, and the Opening of the Reformation Parliament
- 7: Discordant Voices: The Pardoner and The Friar
- 8: The Significance of Heywood's Interludes
- 9: New Forms, New Challenges: Heywood's Songs: Merriness, Malice, and the Death of More
- 10: Discord, Dissent, and Division: England, 1534-1543
- 11: In Kent and Christendom?: The Nature of Heywood's Treason
- 12: Rehabilitation and Reformation: The Epigrams and Proverbs
- 13: The Accession of Mary Tudor: 'The eagle's bird has spread his wings'
- 14: Speaking in Parables: The Spider and the Fly
- 15: Bellicose Verse: 'Scarborough Warning'
- 16: 'When all that is to was is brought': A Time of Endings and Thoughts of Flight
- 17: 'At this my extreme age': 'Old Heywood' in Exile
- 18: 'His own life and nature': Reputation and Legacy
About the author
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 of London, 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 is co-editor of the Oxford Textual Perspectives monograph series.
Summary
The first comprehensive scholarly biography of the Tudor playwright, poet, musician, singer, proverb-collector, and satirist, John Heywood.
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The volume is a highly valuable contribution to Heywood studies that will surely inspire literary scholarship for years to come.
