Leicester Patron of Letters / Eleanor Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Eleanor, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1955]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Describes the relationship of the Elizabethan patron Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his proteges among the writers and scholars of his time in order to better understand the literary motivation in the English Renaissance and to illustrate the functioning of the patronage system in that age.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

I. The Nature of Elizabethan Literary Patronage

II. The Earl of Leicester as Patron His Early Career

III. The Historians

IV. Universities and Scholars

V. The Translators

VI. Puritans and Their Works

VII. Anti-Catholic Propaganda

VIII. The Last Decade of Leicester's Patronage

IX. Leicester's "Neglected" Writers Harvey, Spenser, Florio

Appendix. A Chronological List of Works Dedicated to the Earl of Leicester

List of Sources Consulted

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88550-4

OCLC:

1100429423