John Heywood's "The Spider and the Flie": Educating Queen and Country

John Heywood's "The Spider and the Flie": Educating Queen and Country

John Heywood's "The Spider and the Flie" has been one of the least appreciated of many neglected poems of mid-Tudor England. Henderson claims that Heywood's purpose for writing the poem was not only to instruct but also to exhort commoners, professionals, magistrates and the mona...

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Veröffentlicht in:Studies in philology 1999-07, Vol.96 (3), p.241-274
1. Verfasser: Henderson, Judith Rice
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Allegory
Fables
Folktales
Heywood, John
History
Literary criticism
Maids
Philology
Poetry
Political debate
Rebellion
Religious poetry
Spiders
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Zusammenfassung:John Heywood's "The Spider and the Flie" has been one of the least appreciated of many neglected poems of mid-Tudor England. Henderson claims that Heywood's purpose for writing the poem was not only to instruct but also to exhort commoners, professionals, magistrates and the monarch to fulfill their obligations to the commonwealth.
ISSN:0039-3738
1543-0383