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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the
culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English
literary life. Through new research into the reception of Chaucer's
Troilus and Criseyde,
it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model
of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel, secrecy, and
eroticism informed the behavior of poets, lovers, diplomats, and even
Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the poetry of Hawes and
Skelton, the drama of the court, the letters of Henry VIII to Anne
Boleyn, the writings of Thomas Wyatt, and manuscript anthologies and
early printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a "Pandaric" world of
displayed bodies, surreptitious letters, and transgressive performances.
In the process, he redraws the boundaries between the medieval and the
Renaissance and illustrates the centrality of the verse epistle to the
construction of subjectivity.
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
General editor
STEPHEN ORGEL
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Stanford University
Editorial board
Anne Barton,
University of Cambridge
Jonathan Dollimore,
University of Sussex
Marjorie Garber,
Harvard University
Jonathan Goldberg,
Duke University
Nancy Vickers,
University of Southern Californian
Since the 1970s there has been a broad and vital reinterpretation of the nature of
literary texts, a move away from formalism to a sense of literature as an aspect of
social, economic, political, and cultural history. While the earliest New Historicist
work was criticized for a narrow and anecdotal view of history, it also served as
an important stimulus for post-structuralist, feminist, Marxist, and psychoanaly-
tical work, which in turn has increasingly informed and redirected it. Recent
writing on the nature of representation, the historical construction of gender and
of the concept of identity itself, on theatre as a political and economic phenom-
enon, and on the ideologies of art generally, reveals the breadth of the field.
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture is designed to offer
historically oriented studies of Renaissance literature and theatre which make use
of the insights afforded by theoretical perspectives. The view of history envisioned
is above all a view of our own history, a reading of the Renaissance for and from
our own time.
Recent titles include
The emergence of the English author: scripting the life of the poet in early modern
England
KEVIN PASK
The poetics of English nationhood, 1590-1612
CLAIRE McEACHERN, University of California, Los Angeles
Textual intercourse: collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance
drama
JEFFREY MASTEN, Harvard University
The project ofprose in early modern Europe and the New World
edited by ELIZABETH FOWLER, Yale University, and ROLAND GREENE,
University of Oregon
The marketplace ofprint: pamphlets and the public sphere in early modern England
ALEXANDRA HALASZ, Dartmouth College
A complete list of books in the series is given at the end of the volume
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 18
Courtly letters in the age of Henry VIII
Hans Holbein, Portrait of Sir Thomas Cromwell.

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