Skelton
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- Created on: 16-05-15 16:38
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- Skelton
- Magnyfycence (1520s)
- Orator Regius
- Minions Privy Chamber 1518: influence over the king. Conservative outrage
- Morality play motifs transposed in to courtly setting
- Prince attempted suicide - temptation, sin, repentance
- Socio-political significance
- Secular concerns of good government: management of the State and Aristotetalian debate on true kingship
- Purge of vices = promotes virtue of sovereign
- Reclothed through Good Hope and Friends: regeneration
- Orator Regius
- Bowge of the Court (1498)
- Drede = FEAR. Questions poet's 'connynge' to feign and deceive
- 'Cloak truth' -allegory and metaphor
- Linguistic and moral treachery: poets and courtiers
- Favell/Dysymulacion
- Linguistic and moral treachery: poets and courtiers
- anxious poetic identity
- Compare with Garland (1523) and Occupation
- 'Cloak truth' -allegory and metaphor
- Jump ship
- Drede = FEAR. Questions poet's 'connynge' to feign and deceive
- Speke Parrott
- Heteroglossicdiscourse
- Irony of language: vehicle for discourse and protection
- Wallace Divine Prophet: Vulgate Latin Psalms 82. HomeopathicSatire
- Court limitations to poet's divine role of truth
- Galathea's invocation of plain political speech limited: Royal Envoy closing
- Virgil's Galatea as seductress (Eclogue 3): pelts singer with apple - symbol of love. Yet she arouses him morally
- Ladies' plaything: removed from the masculine action of the court
- Galathea's invocation of plain political speech limited: Royal Envoy closing
- Connects to idea of allegory and there being a single 'truth' to be revealed (by poet)
- Court limitations to poet's divine role of truth
- Heteroglossicdiscourse
- Magnyfycence (1520s)
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