... household in the 1520s, setting out both what is known about these early years and what is not. It offers close readings of two short interludes which it is suggested were produced for performance within the humanist circle around John Rastell and Thomas More, possibly on Rastell’s newly built domestic...

... and imperium, justified expansion, and fictionalized the '‘New World’. The text and conquest were intimately related, and in turn influenced further schemes, including John Rastell’s abortive venture in 1517, Humphrey Gilbert’s crossing in 1583, and Robert Cecil’s characterization of Irish demands...

... Magnificence and the John Rastell and John Heywood production, Gentleness and Nobility, emerge as explorations of issues urgent in the civic milieu: the theory and practice of governance and the ethics of oligarchy. Drapers’ Company London drama Tudor Skelton Rastell Heywood...

...The chapter investigates Roger Barlow’s rise in status from merchant to gentleman and his relationship with John Rastell the younger. It looks at Barlow’s tasks as a Justice of the Peace and how he worked to control piracy in a climate where boundaries between licit and illicit trade were blurred...

... with his father-in-law John Rastell, who also printed the play. It reads the play in the context of humanist debates about the injustices of contemporary society, and demonstrates that the epilogue effectively reverses the pessimism about the prospects of enacting thoroughgoing reform that characterizes...