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‘Worthy to be hadde and redde of euerye Englishe man’ : the private, public and political contexts of Thomas More’s English Workes
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Forsyth, Katie (2018) ‘Worthy to be hadde and redde of euerye Englishe man’ : the private, public and political contexts of Thomas More’s English Workes. British Catholic History, 34 (2). pp. 247-272. doi:10.1017/bch.2018.23
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2018.23
Abstract
Almost ninety years after Thomas More’s death, the playwright John Webster lauded him as a learned and worthy poet, placing him alongside Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Philip Sidney. It is clear that More was celebrated by Webster not only for the quality of his literary writing, but also for the wider political, social and historical influence of his literary output. This article uses the production of the 1557 folio of More’s English Workes to explore the literary, political and religious influence of More’s writing in the 1550s and beyond, and situates More’s Workes within the wider context of folio production in Renaissance England. It also explores how the publication of More’s Workes in folio established a distinct literary position for Thomas More in the mid-1550s, and highlights the unusual nature of the folio’s compilation and production within the mid-Tudor book trade.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain P Language and Literature > PR English literature Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 1450-1600, Books -- Great Britain -- History -- 1450-1600, Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Catholic History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2055-7973 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | October 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 247-272 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/bch.2018.23 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-catholic-history | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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