Writing Under Tyranny
Subtitle: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780199231973
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 16th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; England; English literature; History; History and criticism; Literature and state
First sentence: By no stretch of the available definitions was the England of 1509, or even of 1527, tyrannically governed.