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As there have been some difficulties accessing the readings week by week, this page provides links to the material in a form more suitable for printing. Readings linked to this page begin with those assigned for Week 6 -- the class immediately following the one in which the difficulty was noted -- and, while the method of access looks the same as before on the surface, the readings for each week are divided into two files: literary and critical.

All readings, including those assigned prior to Week 6, can be accessed via the Outline, Texts, and Abstract pages.

Thanks to all those who drew my attention to this problem, and suggested this solution.

Courtly Service

• Week 6 (October 21; no class on Thanksgiving, October 14): [1] Skelton's "A lawde and prayse" and "A ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge." [2] "Aboffe all thynge," "Whilles lyue or breth is in my brest," "Englond be glad," "I haue bene a foster," "I am a joly foster," and "Yow and I and Amyas" (Henry VIII Ms). [3] Wyatt's "Cesar, when that the traytour of Egypt," "Whoso list to hunt," and "A spending hand." [Plus selections of the presenters.]
• Critical Readings: [1] Spearing, A.C. "Wyatt's Poetic Role [and] Wyatt as Courtly Lyricist." 278-300 in Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. [2] Starkey, David. "The Court: Castiglione's Ideal and Tudor Reality." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 45 (1982): 232-9. [3] Anglo, Sidney. "Court Festivals and their Purpose." 98-123 in Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1969.

Courtly Love: Literary Construction and the Dynamics of Power

• Week 7 (October 28): [1] Wyatt's "A lady gaue me a gift," "Whoso list to hunt" (again), "They flee from me," "Madame, withouten many wordes," "Farewell, Loue, and all thy lawes for euer," and "My lute awake." [2] Surrey's "When ragyng loue with extreme payne," "Geue place ye louers," "Svche waiward waies hath loue," and "From Tuskane came my Ladies worthy race." [3] "My loue sche morneth for me," "A the syghes that cum from my hart," "Hey nony nony," "Blow thi horne hunter" (Henry VIII Ms). [Plus selections of the presenters.]
• Critical Reading: [1] Stevens, John. "The Game of Love." 154-202 in Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. London: Methuen, 1961. [2] Thomson, Patricia. "Courtly Love." 10-45 in Sir Thomas Wyatt and His Background. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. [3] Spearing, A.C. "Surrey." 311-26 in Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

• Week 8 (November 4): [1] Youth. [2] Henry VIII's lyrics. [Plus selections of the presenters.]
• Critical Readings: [1] Lancashire, Ian. "The Interlude of Youth." 48-58 [and notes] in the "Introduction" to Two Tudor Interludes: The Interludes of Youth and Hick Scorner. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1980. [2] Herman, Peter C. "Henry VIII of England." 172-86 in The Dictionary of Literary Biography [Vol 132; forthcoming].

Courtly Satire: Service and Subversion

• Week 9 (November 18; no class Remembrance Day, November 11): Skelton's Magnificence. [Plus selections of the presenters.]
• Critical Reading: [1] Norland, Howard B. "Skelton's Magnificence." 175-187 in Drama in Early Tudor Britain, 1485-1558. Lincoln, NB: U of Nebraska P, 1995. [2] Walker, Greg. "A Domestic Drama: John Skelton's Magnyfycence and the Royal Household." 60-101 in Plays of Persuasion: Drama and Politics and the Court of Henry VIII. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. [3] Bevington, David. "Skelton and the Old Aristocracy." 54-63 in Tudor Drama and Politics: A Critical Approach to Topical Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1968.

• Week 10 (November 25): Wyatt's "In court to serue," "Speake thou and spede," "Myne owne Iohn Poyns," "My mothers maides," "A spending hand" (again), with reference to readings from week 7. [Plus selections of the presenters; perhaps Surrey's "Thassirian king in peace."]
• Critical Reading: [1] Fox, Alistair. "The Unquiet Mind of Sir Thomas Wyatt." 257-85 in Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. [2] Spearing, A.C. "Wyatt as Satirist." 306-10 in Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. [3] Greenblatt, Stephen. "Power, Sexuality, and Inwardness in Wyatt's Poetry." 115-156 in Stephen Greenblatt. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. U of Chicago P, 1980.

Lyrical Coterie: The Devonshire Manuscript

• Week 11 (December 2): Lyrics from the Devonshire Ms [see file and handout].
• Critical Readings: [1] Southall, Raymond. "The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41." Review of English Studies [n.s.] 15 (1964): 142-50. [2] Southall, Raymond. "Chapter 2." 15-25 in The Courtly Maker: An Essay on the Poetry of Wyatt and His Contemporaries. Oxford: Blackwell, 1964. [3] Remley, Paul G. "Mary Shelton and Her Tudor Literary Milieu." 40-77 in Peter C. Herman, ed. Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1994. [4] Heale, Elizabeth. "Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire MS (BL Additional 17492)." Modern Language Review 90 (1995): 296-313.

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