| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 377 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 172 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 172
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| Contents |
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) -- Richard Barnfield (1574-1627) -- William Byrd (circa 1543-1623) -- William Camden (1551-1623) -- Thomas Campion (1567-1620) -- Thomas Coryate (1577 or 1579-1617) -- Sir John Davies (1569-1626) -- Thomas Dekkar (circa 1572-1632) -- John Dowland (1563-1626) -- Anne Dowriche (1560-after 1613) -- John Florio (1553?-1625) -- William Fulbecke (1560-1603?) -- Stephen Gosson (1554-1624) -- Fulke Greville, First Lord Brooke (1554-1628) -- Bartholomew Griffin (flourished 1596) -- James VI of Scotland, I of England (1566-1625) -- Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) -- Richard Lynche (flourished 1596-1601) -- John Marston (1576-1634) -- Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (circa 1585-1640) -- Anthony Munday (1560-1633) -- Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) -- Henry Peacham the Elder (1547-1634) -- William Percy (1575-1648) -- Sir Walter Ralegh (1554?-1618) -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Robert Tofte (1561 or 1562-1619 or 1620) -- William Warner (1558-1609) -- Elizabeth Jane Weston (circa 1582-1612) -- Zepheria -- Appendix: Documents on Sixteenth-Century Literature -- Stephen Gosson, "The School Of Abuse" (1579) -- Thomas Lodge, from Defence of Petry (1579) -- King James VI of Scotland, "Ane Schort Treatise Conteining Some Revlis and Cautelis to Be Obseruit and Eschewit in Scottis Poesie" (1584) -Francis Meres, from "Palladis Tamis, Wits Treasurie" (1598) |
| Summary |
Essays on British sixteenth-century writers of nondramatic works representative of the Tudor era. Includes articles that demonstrate several aspects of sixteenth century British nondramatic literature: innovation, writing across many genres, complex interaction between patrons and authors, commitment to education, the Protestant Reformation, political writing, new treatments of law and history, humanistic concerns and developments in professional writing as a career |
| Notes |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-300) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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Biography -- 16th century -- Dictionaries
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Bio-bibliography
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Dictionaries
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Authors, English -- Early modern.
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Authors, English.
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Biography.
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English Literature.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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English literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richardson, David A.
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Gale Research Inc
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| LC no. |
96043211 |
| ISBN |
0810399350 |
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9780810399358 |
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