... many will, when they come to read Orchestra, turn for the sake of their eyes to Hebel and Hudson’s Poetry of the English Renaissance or some other an- thology. FRANCISR. JOHNSON Stanford University George Gascoigne: Elizabethan Courtier, Soldier...

...F. J. Levy Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 ∗ Joan Rees. Fulke Greville, Lord Hrooke, 1554-1628: A Critical Biography . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971. xiv + 238 pp. $8.50. FULKE GREVILLE THE COURTIER...

... related to one of the fountain heads of Renaissance literature, Castig- lione’s IZ Cortigiano or “The Courtier.”l Perhaps this is because Tamburlaine, as one first surveys him in his role of Scythian shepherd, seems to possess few of the attributes set forth for the courtier by the .guests...

..., 1984 JoAnn Cavallo empha- sizes the tensions between and among courtiers from politically and militarily Heather James is associate professor of English and comparative litera- ture at the University of Southern California. She is author of Shake- speare’s Troy: Drama, Politics...

... spectacles the Spanish nobles vied with each other in displaying gorgeous costumes decorated with quantities of jewelry.’ Almost every wealthy courtier included a poet in his retinue, with the understanding that the pet would later eulogize the brilliant appearance of his patron...

... an object of ridicule. Basis for the contemptuous attitude toward the rough soldier- particularly one who behaves uncouthly in the presence of women- is to be sought in courtly tradition; and for Elizabethan purposes this is best illustrated in Castiglione’s Courtier. One of Count Lewis...

... by raising a delicate question in the ever delicate matter of Renaissance courtesy : “whether commend- able deed, or courteous and gentle fact done by the gentleman or courtier towards his sovereign lord, ought to be called liberality and courtesy, or rather band and duty Precisely this problem...

... Gosson, for all his doubts about the poetic enterprise, found value in a masculine, martial verse. But where Gos- son saw courtiers as wanton and effeminate, George Puttenham put the courtly poet at the center of his treatise. For Puttenham, princes were patrons; poets were prince pleasers...

...-the ferming of an ideal man. The line of descent passes through Greek and Roman writers to such familiar Renaissance works as Elyot’s Boke Named the Governour (1531), Lyly’s Euphues (1578), and Castiglione’s Courtier (tr. 1561). The general concept of an ideal man has been most clearly stated...

....” It is revealing that the illustrations of the ideas of honor are found in the actions of a limited number of courtiers around Elizabeth. However, this sociological application is not essential to Watson’s thesis : the tension between pagan-humanistic and Christian ideas of honor exists simply...

... of Buckingham, in York House where his father was Gentleman Usher. In 1631, at the age of seventeen, he was sent abroad to re- ceive the education of a courtier, and he remained on the Continent with a single interruption until 1637. On his return to England, he entered the army and fought...

...). The World of W. B. Ycnts: E.cscz?l,s i,i rs/wcti7~.I’ictoria. U.C.: .ldrlpIii I<ookshop 1.ttl.. for thr 17ni\c.iii\ 01 1 i( to1 i;i. 196.5. xv + 278 pp. 93.75. Distrihutcd in U.S..4. by University of IVasliington PINTS. CORINSAS.ILVADORI. Z’eats and Castiglionc: Poet and Courtier. Dublin: Allen...

... pressures to bear on the hu- manist curriculum, but so also did Venetian aristocrats, state func- tionaries, courtiers, lawyers, monks, Jesuits, and posh merchants. We can only speculate about the ways in which William Cecil (Lord Burghley) and Sir Francis Walsingham, two great functionaries...

.... He introduces him- self as a former courtier and as a petty thief: I have served Prince Florizel, and in my time wore three-pile, but now I am out of service.. . . My traffic is sheets: when the kite builds, look to lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus; who...

... humanist, scholar, and courtier John of Salisbury. An administrative assistant to two arch- bishops of Canterbury, first Theobald and then Thomas Becket, John of Salisbury addressed ideals of the statesman and statesman- ship in several works written in the late 1150s in the difficult early...

... virtue — particularly steadfast resistance —  from early modern discussions characterizes Castiglione’s Courtier. This lat- ter tendency, in theory, would deprive the female ruler of agency, shift such power to the courtier, and make adaptability and expediency the crucial features of exemplarity...

... are found in the actions of a limited number of courtiers around Elizabeth. However, this sociological application is not essential to Watson’s thesis : the tension between pagan-humanistic and Christian ideas of honor exists simply because man lives simultaneously upon the orders of nature...

.... Why? Because in Gawain we must see an inactive courtier contrasted with a vital churl, not a virtuous knight working out a courtesy that includes sufficient chastity but perhaps too superstitious-or too cov- etous and cowardly--a reliance on ladies and their tokens. In short, it seems...

... that these young men felt toward established social institutions. Chapter 2 treats the period during which Donne took part in public life as an aspiring courtier, as a volunteer on the Cadiz and Islands expeditions, and as secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton. In satires and verse letters, Donne examines his...

.... Beowulf, however, is resolved to fight the creature, and in repeating his intention to await it that night he brings his reply to Unferth to an appropriate close, for the Danish courtier had ended his taunt with a reference to the impending meeting of Beowulf and Grendel. The Danes...