... nationally unifying uses for long historical poetry also emerged. The century’s final historical poetry by Blind Hary in Scotland, and John Skelton in early Tudor England, marks the final separation of verse from more overtly ‘factual’ English historical prose narrative. In spite of the growth...

...This book investigates the intersection of English law and literature from John Skelton to John Webster. It takes as its subject the cultural meaning of “jurisdiction” during a transitional period when that technical category in law came under peak pressure, in immediate response to specific...

... own poetic seer Skelton. ²⁵ This chapter argues that John Skelton's Magnyfycence was a response to the bureaucratization of royal authority under the early Tudors. Traditionally read as a warning about excessive expenditure in the royal household, the play emerges instead...

...This article seeks to build upon the importance of John Skelton's Magnyfycence, the survival of which in itself may be seen as a piece of good fortune for those interested in the history of theatre as well as politics because it is one of the earliest extant interludes to carry...

... Randall Edward Stow John Virgil Elizabethan court Sir Thomas Wyatt Clement Robinson Cicero Plutarch patronage music epitaphs literary gift-giving John Skelton Although an English expedition made a largely unsuccessful intervention in the first French Wars of Religion at Newhaven (Le Havre...

... forward with frequent praise and commendation. ²⁴ Henry's tutors seem to have done precisely that. The most notable of them, John Skelton, had cautioned the young prince in the Speculum Principis written for his instruction, not to yield to his every whim, but to ‘listen...

... Gower John Lucan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Lydgate John Skelton John Achilleid Marston John proverb Pythagoras satire Boleyn Anne Devonshire Manuscript Douglas Lady Margaret Elizabeth I England’s Parnassus Gascoigne George Henry VIII Howard Henry Earl of Surrey Howard Lord Thomas Erasmus...

...The poetry of John Skelton and Thomas Wyatt makes a good starting point for thinking about early English autobiography. Readers have been struck by each poet's apparently autobiographical speaker, who seems to be talking about his own experience rather than repeating the commonplaces found in other...

...This article re-examines John Skelton’s “laureate poetics” in the light of his poetic practice. Whereas, over the past twenty years, a consensus has emerged that Skelton’s work is best understood as an attempt to reconcile a poet’s potential roles of court spokesperson and inspired vates...

...In making a choral suite out of the poems for the Five Tudor Portraits of John Skelton, Ralph Vaughan Williams ventured to take some liberties with the text. Certain omissions have been made necessary, partly by the great length of the original, partly from the fact that certain...

...This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the work of John Skelton. It then describes the primary aims of the book, which are to provide a new reading of Skelton's work, and question whether Skelton is as unassimilable to the English literary canon as has frequently been assumed...

... Susan Noakes , Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988), 12. 2 See Greg Walker , John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 188–217 . 3 Even leaving aside...

...Jane Griffiths, Skelton In: The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry. Edited by: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney, Oxford University Press. © Jane Griffiths 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198830696.003.0021 John Skelton...

...0 18 04 2025 © John Colley 2025 2025 John Colley This chapter opens with John Skelton (c.1460–1529), who seems to mark a watershed moment in the history of English vernacular Greek translation: Skelton’s translation from Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke historike...

...This chapter sets out the modal repertoire of satire and charts the different stylistic choices made by poets across the sixteenth century as they engage with Juvenal’s dictum that ‘it is hard not to write satire’. It begins with the multivocality of John Skelton’s early Tudor...