...This chapter focuses on the treatment of the poet's invention and inspiration in Magnyfycence and A Replycacion. A Replycacion has been claimed as the first English formulation of the Platonic theory of inspiration. Yet, whereas Plato treats...

... the possibility of the reader contributing to a work's meaning, it also anticipates the parody of this idea of collaboration in two further late works, A Garlande of Laurell and A Replycacion. These too combine an intensely serious political message with an element of playfulness...