Selected Essays on George Gascoigne

Gillian Austen, "Selected Essays on George Gascoigne "
English | ISBN: 0367630877 | 2022 | 262 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those later Elizabethans – including Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare – who represent the great flowering of the English literary renaissance. Gascoigne rarely returned to a genre, writing prose fiction, blank verse, plays, sonnets, narrative verse, courtly entertainments, satire and many other literary forms, and the later Elizabethans were fully aware of his significance.