Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of the English Reformation

Informationen zum Autor Scott Lucas is associate professor of English at The Citadel. Klappentext Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read as the historical verse tragedy collection ""A Mirror for Magistrates"". This work shows that modern critics have misconstrued the purpose of the tragic verse narratives of the Mirror, approaching them as uncontroversial meditations on abstract political and philosophical doctrines. Zusammenfassung Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read as the historical verse tragedy collection ""A Mirror for Magistrates"". This work shows that modern critics have misconstrued the purpose of the tragic verse narratives of the Mirror! approaching them as uncontroversial meditations on abstract political and philosophical doctrines.

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• Authors: Scott Lucas, Scott C. Lucas
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9781558497061
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-706-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Massachusetts Studies in Early; Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture; Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture; Massachusetts Studies in Early
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies