Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance
By: Gregory M. Colón Semenza.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Newark; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Sports in literature.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Sports -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Sports -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Sports -- Political aspects -- England.; Renaissance -- England.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714.
Description: "Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional - physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of the traditional class hierarchy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-228) and index.