1. New Historicism Critical Book Review
Chapter one describes, "the complex interplay in More's life and writings of self-fashioning and self-cancellation, the crafting of a public role and the profound desire to escape from the identity so crafted". ... The purpose of chapter two is to "examine the extent to which the intense inwardness Wyatt voices in the penitential psalms is brought into being" by comparing it to thing discusses in previous chapters. ... Chapter six is used to further discuss Spenser and Marlowe. ... During the remainder of chapter six, Greenblatt discusses the improvisation of power between the different a...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate