... speculum principis tradition the Thynne William Tuke Sir Brian Elizabeth I Erasmus Desiderius Hawes Stephen Skelton John Heywood John Alexander Severus Sextilius Rufus Starkey Thomas council the Lambert John Sacramentarianism Kenninghall Norfolk Lerer Seth Mount Surrey Puttenham George...

...; and Skelton’s Speak Parrot, seen here as a massive anthology of voices and public interiorities. aesthetic Ariadne genre identity intertextuality metaphor narrator personification poems poetry prosody rhetorical voice art belief Bible Christianity Christ Jesus Derrida Jacques...

...” in The Shepheardes Calender as an allusion that signals satirical intent. Whereas the “Old Poet” referenced is clearly Chaucer, the phrase “new poet” itself serves as an allusion, setting up a satiric genealogy connecting Spenser to John Skelton and, through him, to Catullus (a poet who, though “new...

...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 chapter explores the political fortunes of the Conservative Party’s quest to create a property-owning democracy. It examines Stanley Baldwin’s support for the owner-occupation dimension of Noel Skelton’s property-owning democracy idea to win the votes of the working class elite and how...

...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...

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... turns to the impact of print on English poetry: from the late fifteenth century, the printers Caxton and de Worde gave readers a new way to experience poems. At the court of Henry VIII, Skelton exploited both manuscript and print. The Devonshire manuscript, which circulated around Henry’s courtiers...

...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...

... Astaire and Betty Hutton before returning to M-G-M to choreograph Three Little Words with Astaire and Red Skelton. He remains at M-G-M to work with Sally Forest, Ann Miller, Esther Williams, Marge and Gower Champion, and Cyd Charisse in films such as Excuse My Dust, Texas Carnival...

...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...

... in the telling. In all cases, the marginal glosses contribute significantly to the effect. Yet, although the glosses derive from the earliest witnesses to the poems, they have been omitted from the standard edition of Skelton's works, and have attracted little critical attention. This chapter attempts to redress...

...This chapter presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It argues that contrary to first impressions, Skelton may be viewed as ‘the thing of great constancy’ at the centre of his work. He is constant in his adoption of multiple personae, constant in his juxtaposition of different voices...

...This book is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years (including the only substantial study to date of Skelton's translation of the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus), and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer...

... narrative, a literary form that many modern writers have taken to be paradigmatically medieval. In four of the most substantial allegorical narratives produced in early modern England—William Langland’s Piers Plowman, John Skelton’s The Bowge of Courte, Edmund Spenser’s...

...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...

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... 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...