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Thomas Churchyard: Pen, Sword, and Ego
Matthew Woodcock
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Description for Thomas Churchyard: Pen, Sword, and Ego
Hardback. This is the first book-length biography of Tudor writer, soldier, and courtier Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604), a figure well-known yet long neglected in early modern studies, who lived, wrote, and fought under five different monarchs and enjoyed an unrivalled fifty-year literary career. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 black-and-white halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 3JB; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 704.
Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over fifty different works in a variety of forms and genres. Churchyard's struggles to subsist as an author and soldier provides an unrivalled opportunity to examine the self-promotional strategies employed by an individual who attempts to make a living from both writing and fighting, and who experiments throughout his life with ways in which the arts of the ... Read more
Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over fifty different works in a variety of forms and genres. Churchyard's struggles to subsist as an author and soldier provides an unrivalled opportunity to examine the self-promotional strategies employed by an individual who attempts to make a living from both writing and fighting, and who experiments throughout his life with ways in which the arts of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
703g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199684304
SKU
V9780199684304
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About Matthew Woodcock
Educated at Exeter and Oxford, Matthew Woodcock taught in Oxford, Cork, and London before becoming Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Fairy in The Faerie Queene (2004), a reception history of Henry V (2008), and Sir Philip Sidney and the Sidney Circle (2010); and editor of an ... Read more
Reviews for Thomas Churchyard: Pen, Sword, and Ego
Matthew Woodcock succeeds in making us look at it afresh to learn much about writing, fighting, constructing an authorial self, and overcoming the challenges of the professional authorship in the rapidly changing conditions of the late sixteenth-century England.
Helen Hackett, Times Literary Supplement
Helen Hackett, Times Literary Supplement