...’ Beware the Cat (1553); the Roman talking statue Pasquillus (P. Esquillus) in his scabrous anti-Catholic satire Wonderful News of the Death of Paul III (c.1552); the bumbling editor of The Mirror for Magistrates (1559), ‘William Baldwin’, who...

... tragedy from the 1587 Mirror for Magistrates. Anjou Francis Duke of Berwick Carey Henry first Lord Hunsdon Castelnau Michel de Churchyard Lucretia wife Churchyard Thomas France Hatton Sir Christopher Low Countries Norris Sir John Nowell Alexander Nowell Robert Scotland...

... Thomas Brooke Christopher Niccols Richard Beaumont John Milton John Charles II King of England Cooper Helen James I King of England Nagel Alexander Wood Christopher S prophecy ballad Stanley Mirror for Magistrates complaint True Tragedy of Richard III Alone and in despair on the last night...

...This chapter examines the most significant poetic miscellanies of the sixteenth century, focusing on Tottel’s Miscellany, A Mirror for Magistrates, and England’s Helicon, showing how these volumes attempted to fashion a reading and writing nation. Songes...

... Richard Wilford Sir James autobiography Devereux Walter first Earl of Essex Drury Sir William fortune Giovio Paolo Guyon Ferry de Haddington military memoirs Mirror for Magistrates A Monluc Blaise de Nugent Christopher Baron Delvin Smith Thomas junior Antwerp Elizabeth I Guise Francis...

... Norwich Virgil Whetstone George Armada Spanish Bedingfield Thomas Belleau Remy Cardano Giralamo commonwealth writing Lee John Mirror for Magistrates A Barnfield Richard Blenerhasset Thomas Chute Anthony Daniel Samuel Drayton Michael Fletcher Giles Higgins John Lodge Thomas Middleton...

...Figure 5.1 Recto of the remaining leaf of A Memorial of All Suche Princes, the suppressed edition of the Mirror (c. 1554–5). © British Library Board, shelfmark c.40.m.9.25. Figure 5.2 A page from A Mirror for Magistrates...

... in the Mirror for Magistrates project and his female-voiced complaint tragedy of ‘Shore’s wife’. The chapter proposes that Churchyard rehearses the story of the friendless individual at court as a means of speaking about his own parlous fortunes at court thus far. Charles V Emperor Churchyard Thomas...

...) and George Cavendish's Metrical Visions (?1558). Evidence of ownership of copies of the Fall (particularly that held by the recusant Francis Englefield) is examined. The reformist Mirror for Magistrates sequences, initiated by William Baldwin in 1559...

...This chapter focuses on how rhetoric shapes emotional affect, and considers how the texts are transformed through their evolution in print. It examines A Mirror for Magistrates and describes it as protean and collaborative, through its ability to change and expand its many editions...

...This chapter moves from arguments about literary and discursive convention to debates about the place, if any, of fiction in autobiography. One of the most important unrecognized texts in the history of autobiography is William Baldwin's A Mirror for Magistrates (1559...

...In the history plays of the 1590s Shakespeare covers most of late medieval English history, representing the struggle between the rival claimants to the crown and the people as a tragedy. Shakespeare was influenced by the verse tragedies in A Mirror for Magistrates—as well...

...” that strictly regulated literary endeavor through threats of suppression. This article considers William Baldwin’s Mirror for Magistrates, George Gascoigne’s Poesies, and Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene within the wider contexts of Tudor censorship practices...

... between classical moral philosophy’s belief in the will’s natural inclination to obey reason, and Reformed theology’s account of an evil concupiscence that compels beyond rational intention and volition. The spectral complaints of A Mirror for Magistrates link tragic falls...

..., is discussed, as is Tottel’s 1557 Songes and Sonettes, whose cachet lay partly in its making the private poetry of the elite available to a large public. Another popular collection was A Mirror for Magistrates, in which a gathering of poets impersonating famous tragic victims...