Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland

ISBN: 9780198739210 出版年：2016 页码：464 May, Steven W Bryson, Alan Oxford University Press

This book surveys the phenomenon of Renaissance verse libel and provides carefully edited texts of fifty-two of these insulting manuscript poems, most of them made available here for the first time. Difficult and unusual words in these poems are glossed, while the commentary explains who is being attacked and why.