1st Edition

Selected Essays on George Gascoigne

Edited By Gillian Austen Copyright 2023
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeth’s 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... Read more

Introduction by Arthur Kinney

I: Influences on Gascoigne

1. Robert Maslen, "Gascoigne, Piccolomini, and the Demilitarisation of the Siege of Troy"

2. Jane Griffiths, "Ficta sub imagine texta: John Skelton and George Gascoigne"

3. Mike Pincombe, "George Gascoigne and Female Complaint"

II: Gascoigne’s Influence on Elizabethan Literature

Gascoigne and Drama

4. Richard McCoy, "Gascoigne's Poses and Supposes"

5. Stephen Hamrick, " "Certain decayed men": Gascoigne’s Catholic Maske"

Gascoigne and Poetry

6. Elizabeth Heale, "Spenser and Gascoigne"

7. Chris Goodwin, "Gascoigne’s Lute, Gascoigne’s Sparrow and Gascoigne’s Goodnight: imitatio and the "verie sweete notes adapted"

8. Michael Hetherington, "Gascoigne, Miscellaneity, and Aesthetic Satisfaction"

9. David Trim, "Gascoigne the soldier-poet: rhetoric, representation and reality"

Gascoigne and Prose Fiction

10. Susan C Staub, "'Pretty conceits as pleased her peevish fantasy': the 'Manling' Secretary in The Adventures of Master F.J."

11. Katharine Wilson, "Not forgetting Frances: ‘Adventures’ in Elizabethan fiction"

III: Gascoigne’s Critical Reputation

12. Gillian Austen, " ‘The very chefe of our late rymers’: George Gascoigne and Literary Fame"

Biography

Gillian Austen is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of English, University of Bristol, England, UK.