Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Greg Walker. Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 556 pp. index. $65. ISBN: 0-19-928333-8.

As the captivating title shows, Greg Walker's book charts the development of writing in England from a first stage of Henry VIII's reign, when the king was seen as the ideal, benevolent ruler, to a second phase when his tyrannical attitude became ever more pronounced: 1527 is the watershed. This development is represented by writers and scholars devoted to a wide range of intellectual ...

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