Mingling Freely at the Mermaid
Blair Worden: 17th-century poets and politics, 6 November 2003
The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives
edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies.
Ashgate, 213 pp., £45, November 2003,0 7546 0681 3 Show More
edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies.
Ashgate, 213 pp., £45, November 2003,
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-60
by Alastair Bellany.
Cambridge, 312 pp., £45, January 2002,0 521 78289 9 Show More
by Alastair Bellany.
Cambridge, 312 pp., £45, January 2002,
“... from literature than unites them. In the Renaissance they were barely separable. Writers – Sir Thomas More, Sir Walter Ralegh, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, Thomas May, John Milton, Andrew Marvell and many more – moved between history and poetry or drama, finding in them complementary means of instilling virtue and wisdom ... ”