Elyot, Sir Thomas
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Elyot, Sir Thomas (
c. 1490–1546). Humanist, administrator, and political theorist, Elyot was educated at Oxford and the Middle Temple. Clerk to the justices of assize (1511–26) and to Henry VIII's council (
c. 1523–30), he retired in 1530, being knighted in the same year and made ambassador to Charles V in 1531–2. Elyot's
Book Named the Governor (1531) advocated a monarchical ‘public weal’ for England and described the education necessary to prepare Englishmen to help the king rule it. His use of English was intended to show how the vernacular could be effective in encouraging wise conduct.
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Flattery in Shakespeare's Othello: the relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot.
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...demonstrated a profound interest in Plutarch's historical work, the parallel Lives, in the edition translated by Sir Thomas North from the French of Jacques Amyot. It is therefore easy to imagine that he would have been extremely interested...
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EXHIBITIONS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; Hans Holbein the Younger drew Sir Thomas Elyot one day in 1532. The sitter gazed...Four and a half centuries later, Elyot survives death in Holbein's disconcertingly...childhood friend and eventual betrayer, Thomas Cromwell's henchman Sir Richard...
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The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...court. Certainly for a writer like Sir Thomas Elyot, dancing, promising "not only...part of the training of a courtier. Elyot sees it as a kind of moral art of...of courtly dancing in the period, Elyot's, speaks of it rather as a moral...
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Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...texts (William Thynne and Sir Brian Tuke), writing...mirrors for princes (Sir Thomas Elyot), and composing lyric...translating biblical texts (Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard...chapter, dedicated to Thomas Elyot. The Renaissance model...
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The healing dialogues of doctor Bullein.(A Dialogue ... Against the Fever Pestilence)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...scholar, politician, and amateur physician Sir Thomas Elyot. (3) Bullein's title fuses the name of Elyot's The Castle of Health (1537), the...readers the extended attack on Heliogabalus in Thomas Elyot's The Image of Governance, a fictionalized...
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Friendship in Sidney's Arcadias.(Philip Sidney)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Sir Philip Sidney's two versions...This is an example of what Sir Thomas Elyot calls the "longe deliberation...pairing. This owes something to Elyot's tale of "Titus and Gisippus...mutuality in friendship without Elyot's too-neat sense of a payoff...
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George Puttenham's lewd and illicit career.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Hampshire, and his wife Margery, the sister of Sir Thomas Elyot. In November 1546, at age sixteen, he matriculated...probably influenced by the fact that both his uncle, Sir Thomas Elyot (d. 1546), and brother-in-law, Sir John Throckmorton...
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Letter: Insidious disease that the Government is spreading
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/19/1994; ; 359 words
; Sir: I fully agree with James Fenton (17 January...irony. Shakespeare's source here was Sir Thomas Elyot's Booke Named the Governour (1531), but while Elyot intended his arguments about "order" and...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/19/1994; 700+ words
; ...and conductor, 1816; Sir Richard Francis Burton...poet, 1888. Deaths: Thomas Killigrew, playwright...own men in Texas 1687; Thomas William Daniell, landscape...Roman poet, 43 BC; Thomas Webster, figure painter...England, 1413; Sir Thomas Elyot, diplomat, doctor and...
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Down with football.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...aesthetics by other means. The old view was well put by Sir Thomas Elyot, who in his The Book named the Governor (1531) described...a Cambridge college (1848). Earlier ages accepted Elyot's and Shakespeare's view of the game. Change and...
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Sir Thomas Elyot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Thomas Elyot , c.1490-1546, English author. He wrote the earliest Latin-English dictionary (1538) and is remembered especially for his sensible and well-written treatise on the education of statesmen, The Book Named the Governour (1531).
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Elyot, Sir Thomas
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Elyot, Sir Thomas ( c. 1490–1546). Humanist, administrator, and political theorist, Elyot was educated at Oxford and the Middle Temple...ambassador to Charles V in 1531–2. Elyot's Book Named the Governor (1531) advocated...
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ELYOT, (Sir) Thomas
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
ELYOT, (Sir) Thomas [1499?–1546]. English statesman and scholar. In such...style more eloquent, the structure of English made meaning clearer. Elyot sought to increase English vocabulary by borrowing from Latin, Greek...
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Renaissance
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...friendship of Erasmus with John Colet and with Thomas More was particularly significant. Colet...civility on the Italian model was offered by Sir Thomas Elyot ( Book Named the Governor , 1531) and Sir Thomas Hoby (translation of Castiglione's Courtier...
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‘humanism’
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...were not typical of all humanists. Thomas More (1478–1535...the movement, Utopia (1516). Sir Thomas Elyot ( c. 1490–1546) in...when dogma was threatened. Both Thomas More and John Fisher deployed their...
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