Introduction. Captive to Truth: Rethinking Renaissance Plainness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction. Captive to Truth: Rethinking Renaissance Plainness 1
6. 1. Wyatt's Antirhetorical Verse: Privilege and the Performance of Conviction 25
7. 2. Educational Authority and the Plain Truth in the Admonition Controversy and The Scholemaster 50
8. 3. Peace, Order, and Confusion: Fulke Greville and the Inner and Outer Forms of Reform 93
9. 4. The Mysterious Plainness of Anger: The Search for Justice in Satire and Revenge Tragedy 125
10. 5. The Performance of Pride: Desire, Truth, and Power in Coholanus and Timon of Athens 168
11. 6. "Without the form of justice": Plainness and the Performance of Love in King Lear 190
12. Epilogue: A Precious Jewel? 220
13. Index 225