Shakespeare and National Culture.(Review)

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Essays on Thomas Hoccleve. Ed. by CATHERINE BATT. (Westfield Publications in Medieval Studies, 10) London: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 1996. ix + 130 pp.

Interest in Hoccleve has grown steadily over the past quarter of a century, often along fairly narrow lines dealing with the 'autobiographical question' raised by his late Series poems and his 'Male Regle'. The opposing views were that Hoccleve's description of his nervous breakdown was historically accurate, supported by the ...

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