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Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance

Title
Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance / Gregory M. Colón Semenza.
Author
Semenza, Gregory M. Colón, 1972-
Publication
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2003.

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Description
239 p.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-228) 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.
Call Number
JFE 04-4091
ISBN
0874138442 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003056527
OCLC
52602809
Author
Semenza, Gregory M. Colón, 1972-
Title
Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance / Gregory M. Colón Semenza.
Imprint
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-228) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 04-4091
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