...This article analyzes William Baldwin's prose writing. It focuses on Beware the Cat, which resists classification due to its diverse and strange nature. While at times a pleasant read, it can also be disgusting and occasionally disturbing. The slipperiness of the work reflects...

... celebration of Queen Elizabeth as the biblical Spouse. Next, this chapter dwells on the tradition of English verse versions of the Song of Songs, including William Baldwin’s The Canticles, or Balades of Salomon and Gervase Markham’s The Poem of Poems. Or, Sions Muse...

... of Somerset More Sir Thomas Boleyn Anne Cavendish George Chaucer Geoffrey Howard Catherine Virgil Scotland autobiography Shakespeare William Camell Thomas soldier authors Charles V Habsburg–Valois wars Mary I Wyatt’s rebellion A Mirror for Magistrates William Baldwin female complaint Jane...

...) 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 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...

...” 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...

...This chapter focuses on William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat and William Bullein’s Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence, arguing that their glossing reflects both the contemporary controversy over the translation, printing, and glossing of the Bible, and a wider...

... explores how the voice is implicated in the printing process. It focuses on the work of two print-aware authors, John Bale and William Baldwin, who worked with the most influential ‘talking book’ in England in the 1540s: Erasmus’s Paraphrases. It explores Bale’s attentiveness...

... rhetoric, generated anxiety about truth, falsehood, and lying. Particular attention is paid to Erasmus’s Colloquies and Lingua; William Baldwin’s A Treatise of Moral Philosophy, the most popular work of philosophy in sixteenth-century England; the use...

...This book argues that English writers of prose fiction from the 1550s to the 1570s produced some of the most daringly innovative publications of the sixteenth century. Through close examination of a number of key texts, from William Baldwin's satirical fable Beware the Cat, to George Gascoigne's...

..., particularly nocturnal animals. The nighttime, then, is viewed as a nonhuman jurisdiction. The chapter then returns to Montaigne’s “Apologie” and Descartes’s Discourse on a more epistemological front. It also examines William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat (1570) and Shakespeare’s...

... Churchyard and William Baldwin, William Elderton, and Richard Beeard. It discusses how the contention raises questions about the role of poetry in public, political debate and proposes that Churchyard as an author becomes an object of discourse and debate, which was a significant, formative moment in his...

..., as well as manage and exploit the voices of their readers. It offers fresh readings of the key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers: John Bale, Anne Askew, William Baldwin, Thomas Nashe. And it aims to rethink what a printed book can be, searching the printed page for vocal cues, and exploring...