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22 A Place in the Shade: George Cavendish and De Casibus Tragedy
Get accessMike Pincombe is Professor of Tudor and Elizabethan Literature at Newcastle University. He has written books on The Plays of John Lyly (Manchester University Press, 1996) and Elizabethan Humanism (Longman, 2001), and is the co-editor, with Cathy Shrank, of The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature (Oxford University Press, 2009). His current work is mainly based in mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan poetry.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
George Cavendish is one of the great forgotten figures of mid-Tudor poetry. His so-called Metrical Visions is a long visionary poem containing a sequence of tragic complaints spoken by the phantasmal apparitions of a series of mid-Tudor personages from Cardinal Wolsey (d. 1530) to Lady Jane Grey (d. 1554). This article explores certain elements of the formal structure of Cavendish's poem in the light of the English de casibus tradition. The main current of this literary genre — or, rather, genre complex — was transmitted to Tudor readers and writers by John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, a verse ‘translation’of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium. Cavendish is likely to have read the poem in the most recent edition, which was printed by Richard Pynson in 1527, when Cavendish was still in the service of Cardinal Wolsey.
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