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Author:

Semenza, Gregory M. Colón, 1972-

Title:

Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance / Gregory M. Colón Semenza.

Publisher:

Associated University Presses,
Associated University Presses,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

239 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Sports in literature.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Sports--England--History--16th century.
Sports--England--History--17th century.
Sports--Political aspects--England.
Renaissance--England.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-228) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "A treatise of sport" -- The legacy of the anti-sport polemic -- Sport and the idle nobility in Shakespeare's Henry VI -- Performative interpretations: the literacy context of the Book of sports controversy -- The burden of the present: athletic and poetic competition in the Annalia Dubrensia -- The danger of "innocent, harmless mirth": Walton's Compleat angler in the interregnum -- "When to thir sports they [re]turn'd": Samson Agonistes and the politics of restoration sport.

ISBN:

9780874138443 (alk. paper)
0874138442 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52602809

LCCN:

2003056527

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)