Biographical truth : the representation of historical persons in Tudor-Stuart writing / Judith H. Anderson
1984, First Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #384377
ISBN: 0300030851
Physical description: 243p; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: pt. 1. Biographical truth -- Bede: conventions of portrayal -- Cavendish: patterns without meaning -- Roper: deliberated design and designer -- Walton: likeness and truth -- pt. 2. More's Richard III: history and biography -- Shakespeare's Richard III: the metamorphosis of biographical truth to fiction -- Shakespeare's Henry VIII: the changing relation of truth to fiction -- pt. 3. Bacon's theory of life-writing: "true history" and equivocal truth -- Bacon's Henry VII: "WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate": caught in a cobweb of words.
Subjects: English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
biographies (literary works)
Biography as a literary form.
English literature Early modern. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography as a literary form.
English literature Early modern. Historiography England History. Biographies as Topic
Littérature anglaise 1500-1700 (Moderne) Histoire et critique. Letterkunde.
Biografieën. Engels. Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Biography as a literary form.
Historiography England History. Biography as a literary form. Biography as a literary form. Historiography Great Britain History.
Littérature anglaise 16e siècle Histoire et critique.
Biografieën. Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Historiography. Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714 Historiography.
Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 ; Biography. Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714 ; Biography. Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714 Historiography.
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