.... Christopher Baswell, Prof. A. S. G. Edwards, and Dr. Mike Pätzold for their comments on earlier versions of this essay; and to Dr. Alice Miskimin for introducing me to Dunbar and Skelton. TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN THE MACARONIC POETRY OF DUNBAR AND SKELTON...

... of recompense but also in the sense of a balance between extremes. In John Skelton’s early-sixteenth-century Magnyficence, especially, the relationships of liberty, measure, restraint, and governance are strikingly portrayed. A “governance”play probably written for the edu- cation of the young...

... who had only lately entered his service, crowning the favors heaped by competing courts upon that highly professional jongleur while he lived. We do not know what last respects Henry VIII paid his old tutor John Skelton; and for all we hear, Flodden may have blended William Dunbar...

... acknowledgment of his great predecessor John Skelton. This link between Spenser and Skelton enables Hadfield to examine how a literary tradition might be established in the sixteenth century as well as in the twentieth, the related question of the various ways by which Tudor authors created...

... uiriditate durauit perpetua: uti sunt uirides aues illae. Fuere q[ui] crederent hunc Psittacum eum fuisse: q[ui] unus ex septe [m] sapientibus dictus e [st] .]z4 Such traditions, still available although in decline in the sixteenth century, invest the title figure of John Skelton’s...

... would apply to some of the more rustic fea- tures of the style, but not to those elements that carry over into The FnerieQueeue. 11 Chaucer and Skelton (together with Lydgate) are cited in the Varioncm as the principal models in English for Spenser’s envoy (p. 235). DAVID L. MILLER...

... (New York, 1!226), p. 48. 5Skeat (op. cit., V, 38) notes the mormal as a sore in Lydgate, Skelton, Palsgrave, et al. 6 Op. cit., pp. 762, 1089, respectively. 7 NED (Oxford, 1908), VI, 665. 8 Robinson, op. cit., p. 286. 265 266...

.... Skelton and Satire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Pp. 326. $6.50. Hook, Frank S., and John Yoklavich (editors). Dramatic Works of George Peele: Edward I and The Bottle of AIcaaar. Vol. I1 of The Life and Works of George Peele, Charles Tyler Prouty, General Editor. New Haven...

... dramatists as Medwall, Skelton, Heywood, and Rastell and then discusses subsequent Tudor and early Elizabethan plays under such headings as the royal divorce, suppression of the monasteries, the return to Catholicism, the Elizabethan settlement, advice on the succession, and obedience to a tyrant...

... originally designated Skelton (p. 49). The Calender dramatizes the poet’s initial success and helps to obliterate a predecessor in the process. Topics such as these could them- selves generate further studies by other Spenserians. Not satisfied with this already ambitious mixture, Miller also tries...

... and Skelton an awareness of new artistic possibilities in the relationships between Latin and ver- nacular; their poetry seems intended for an audience capable of grasp ing the verbal and linguistic dexterity that might be effected in the play in and between languages. Such a concern...

... : Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. 301. $3.00. Ross, John F. Swift and Defoe. A Study in Relationship. Berke- ley: University of California Press, 1941. Pp. vii + 152. $1.50, Rubel, Verk L. Poetic Diction in the English Renaissance. From Skelton through Spenser. New York : Modern...

... to the inquiring corres- pondent). Some may not be important. Still, when we are given interesting excerpts from Fraser’s Magazine and the Westminster Review (p. 47), it adds to our interest to know that the first was written by Sir John Skelton and the second by Justin McCarthy. Besides, you never know...

... chapters that provide a chronological, issue-oriented picture of the evolution of Tudor drama. Starting with the “maintenance” question in Wisdom Who Is Christ, he investigates such early Tudor dramatists as Medwall, Skelton, Heywood, and Rastell and then discusses subsequent Tudor...

...- Victorinn Female Novelists. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. xvii + 222 pp. $5.95. Fish, Stanley Eugene. John Skelton’s Poetry. New Haven and London: Yale Uni- versity Press, Yale Studies in English, Vol. 157, 1965. viii + 268 pp. $7.50. Fulghum, Walter B., Jr. Dictionary...

...–1606, ed. R. A. Skelton, 3 vols. (Amsterdam: Theatrvm Orbis Terranvm, 1967), 3:v–xiv; George B. Parks, “Ramusio’s Literary History,” Studies in Philology 52 (1955): 127–48; Parks, “The Contents and Sources of Ramusio’s Navigationi,” Bulletin of the Modern Language Quarterly 67:1 (March 2006...

... 1: The Distant Thunder, 1880- 1908. Oxford, London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xvi + 359 pp. $19.95. Skelton, Robin. Poetic Truth. London: Heinemann; New York: Harper tk Kow, Barnes tk Noble Import Division, 1978. x 4- 131 pp. $18.50, cloth; $7.50, paper...

... University Press, 1980. ix + 219 pp. $15.00. Monsman, Gerald. Walter Paler’s Art of Autobiography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. ix + 174 pp. $12.50. Neuss, Paula (editor). John Skelton: Magnificence. Manchester: Manchester Univer- sity Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...

... and the Medieval Miller He was so subtyll and so dye, He wolde it take before their eye, And make them a proper lye, And put himselfe out of blame.40 Perhaps the cleverest thief in English legend was the miller in Merie Tales of Skelton...

...Curtis Bradford Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 1 Robin Skelton and Ann Saddlemyer (editors). The World of W. B. Yeats: Essay in Perspective . Victoria. B.C.: Adelphi Bookshop Ltd. for the University of Victoria, 1965. xv + 278 pp. $6.75. Distributed in U.S.A...