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Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England

Anne Lake Prescott

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Famed for his learning, wordplay, fantasy and insight, the French writer Francois Rabelais was also widely known for scoffing, supposed atheism, salacious writing and irresponsible whimsy. This book explores Renaissance England's response to the humorous yet difficult and ambiguous Rabelais. Anne Lake Prescott describes in detail how a host of English writers - Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Donne, James I, Shakespeare and Michael Drayton, among many others - collectively and sometimes individually appreciated and condemned Rabelais.

Language: English

Pages: 278

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: March 30, 1998

ISBN: 0300071221

ISBN 13: 9780300071221

Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England

Anne Lake Prescott

0/5 ( ratings)

Famed for his learning, wordplay, fantasy and insight, the French writer Francois Rabelais was also widely known for scoffing, supposed atheism, salacious writing and irresponsible whimsy. This book explores Renaissance England's response to the humorous yet difficult and ambiguous Rabelais. Anne Lake Prescott describes in detail how a host of English writers - Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Donne, James I, Shakespeare and Michael Drayton, among many others - collectively and sometimes individually appreciated and condemned Rabelais.

Language: English

Pages: 278

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: March 30, 1998

ISBN: 0300071221

ISBN 13: 9780300071221

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