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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 September 2009
      18 June 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511518843
      9780521414807
      9780521034388
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518843
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 252 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.384kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
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    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
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    In the sixteenth century the modern meaning of courtship - 'wooing someone' - developed from an older sense - 'being at court'. The Rhetoric of Courtship takes this semantic shift as the starting point for an incisive account of the practice and meanings of courtship at the court of Elizabeth I, where 'being at court' pre-eminently came to mean the same as 'wooing' the Queen. Exploring the wider context of social anthropology, philology, cultural and literary history, Catherine Bates presents courtship as a judicious, sensitive and rhetorically conscious understanding of public and private relations. Gascoigne, Lyly, Sidney, Leicester, Essex, and Spenser are shown to reflect in the fictional courtships of their poetry and prose the vulnerabilities of court life that were created by the system of patronage. The Rhetoric of Courtship thus makes an important contribution to Renaissance cultural history, using the court of Elizabeth I as a test case for representations of the courtier's role and power in the literature of the period.

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