John Skelton and Early Modern Culture: Papers Honoring Robert S. Kinsman

Edited by David R. Carlson (University of Ottawa)
2008 | 244 + xxi pp. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-344-0 | MRTS 300
$45 | £32

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This collection of essays in honor of a great Skelton and James Joyce scholar at UCLA amounts to a comprehensive, collaboratively written, literary-historical biography of one of the strangest figures of early English literary history. Skelton was a priest and a rogue, a royal apologist and a satirist, a dissident and a sycophant. This book contains papers on each period of Skelton’s career and on all his works, demonstrating how his diverse writings fit into several contemporary contexts, such as the royal court, the city of London, and his own rural parish in Norfolk.

Table of Contents

  • Greg Walker: John Skelton and the Royal Court

  • William Streitberger: John Skelton: The Revels, Entertainments, and Plays at Court

  • W. Scott Blanchard: Skelton’s Critique of Wealth and the Autonomy of the Early Modern Intellectual

  • Antony J. Hasler: Cultural Intersections: Skelton, Barclay, Hawes, André

  • A. S. G. Edwards: Skelton’s English Poems in Manuscript and Print

  • Greg Waite: Approaching the Poet’s Language: The Holograph Records of Skelton’s English

  • Julia Boffey: ‘Withdrawe Your Hande’: The Lyrics in The Garland of Laurel from Manuscript to Print

  • Arthur Kinney: John Skelton’s Aesthetics of Incarnation

  • Catherine G. Canino and Nancy A. Gutierrez: ‘Trouth ought to be rescude; / Trouth should nat be subdude’: Skelton and the Tudor Myth

  • John Scattergood: ‘Portraying a Life’: Skelton’s Flytings and Some Related Poems

  • David R. Carlson: Protestant Skelton: The Satires of 1519–1523 and the Piers Plowman Tradition