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A. M. Kinghorn.
The Chorus of History 1458-1558: Literary Historical Relations in Renaissance Britain.

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 1971 (previously issued by Blandford, 1971).
SBN: 389041173.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK.
Size: 145×221×27mm.
Page count: 329pp plus 16 pages of monochrome plates.
Main language: English.
Overal condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; some wear on the boards and some foxing on the page edges; previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, otherwise the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 674g.

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Contents: Writing of history in the early Renaissance; Architecture, graphic arts & music; Influence of European learning in England; Exploration, science & religious reformation; Prose & the new Bible; Changing language — standard English & Middle Scots; James III & IV of Scotland — Henryson & Dunbar as commentators on the times; Poet of the Scottish Reformation — Lyndsay; Poets of Henry VIII’s court — Wyatt & Surrey; Poetry & drama as a mirror of history.


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