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1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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An attendant Lord? Henry Parker, Lord Morley / David Starkey -- The writings of Henry Parker, Lord Morley : a bibliographical survey / James P. Carley -- Books connected with Henry Parker, Lord Morley and his family / Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards -- Morley, Machiavelli, and the Pilgrimage of Grace / K.R. Bartlett -- Morley and the Papacy : Rome, regime and religion / Richard Rex -- What did Morley give when he gave a 'Plutarch' Life? / Jeremy Maule -- Morley's translations from Roman philosophers and English courtier literature / David R. Carlson -- The sacrifice of Lady Rochford : Henry Parker, Lord Morley's translation of De claris mulieribus / James Simpson -- Lord Morley's Tryumphes of Petrarcke : reading spectacles / Marie Axton -- Lord Morley's 'Ryding ryme' and the origins of modern English versification / Susanne Woods -- Epilogue. Lord Morley's funeral / Richard Axton |
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One of the few authors from the ranks of the nobility during the first half of the16th century, Henry Parker, Lord Morley (c.1481-1556) is an undeservedly neglected figure, whose rehabilitation this volume sets out to establish. Morley was the first Tudor writer to render Petrarch's "Trionfi" into English verse, he set about imitating the "Italian Ryme called Soneto", and he translated Plutarch's "Lives" into English decades before any other writer attempted to do so. He presented his translations each year as New Year's gifts to those he wished to please, individuals as diverse as Henry VIII himself, the King's daughter Mary, and Thomas Cromwell. As these essays show, Morley was a kind of mirror of the ways in which the Tudor nobility functioned in a world wracked by faction and discord. The collection is interdisciplinary and features contributions by leading historians, cultural critics and literary scholars, including David Starkey, James P. Carley, Julia Boffey, A.S.G. Edwards, K.R. Bartlett, Richard Rex, Jeremy Maule and Suzanne Woods. It also includes editions of writings by Morley |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Morley, Henry Parker, Lord, 1476-1556.
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Morley, Henry Parker, Lord, 1476-1556 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Morley, Henry Parker, Lord, 1476-1556 fast |
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Translators -- England -- Biography
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Nobility -- England -- Biography
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Latin language -- Translating into English (Early modern) -- History
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Nobility
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Translators
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Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056776
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England
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Great Britain
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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Axton, Marie.
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Carley, James P.
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| ISBN |
9780712363525 |
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0712363521 |
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