Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance by Catherine Nicholson

Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance

Catherine Nicholson

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In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe lo...

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