Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts

Introduction: Rethinking The Henrician Era / Peter C. Herman -- Ascending The Riche Mount: Performing Hierarchy And Gender In The Henrician Masque / Skiles Howard -- Mary Shelton And Her Tudor Literary Milieu / Paul G. Remley -- Henry Viii As David: The King's Image And Reformation Politics / John N. King -- The Whole Island Like A Single Family: Positioning Women In Utopian Patriarchy / Janel Mueller -- Skelton: The Voice Of The Mob In Sanctuary / W. Scott Blanchard -- Leaky Ladies And Droopy Dames: The Grotesque Realism Of Skelton's The Tunnynge Of Elynour Rummnynge / Peter C. Herman -- Surrey's Wyatt: Autumn 1542 And The New Poet / W.a. Sessions -- Wyatt's David / Alexandra Halasz -- Wyatt's Unlikely Likenesses: Or, Has The Lady Read Petrarch? / Barbara L. Estrin -- The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts And Openings / Roland Greene -- Holy Wurdes And Slypper Wit: John Bale's King Johan And The Poetics Of Propaganda / David Scott Kastan. When Did The Renaissance Begin? The Henrician Court And The Shakespearean Stage / Bill Readings. Edited By Peter C. Herman. Includes Papers Originally Presented At A Special Session Of The 1990 Convention Of The Modern Language Association Of America, Held In Chicago. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.