Selected Essays on George Gascoigne - 9780367630874

Taylor & Francis

Selected Essays on George GascoigneAuthor(s): Gillian Austen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367630874, 978-0367630874\nSynopsis\nThis collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeths reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those later Elizabethans - including Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare - who represent the great flowering of the English literary renaissance. Gascoigne rarely returned to a genre, writing prose fiction, blank verse, plays, sonnets, narrative verse, courtly entertainments, satire and many other literary forms, and the later Elizabethans were fully aware of his significance. \n\nThese essays are organised into three main sections: influences upon Gascoigne, such as Skelton; Gascoignes influence on others, including Spenser; and finally a reassessment of his critical neglect and the story behind his m.