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title

A COURTIER'S LEGACY: CASTIGLIONE'S LITERARY INFLUENCE ON ELIZABETH ENGLAND

author

Vitale, Michael

abstract

This thesis examines the cultural influence of Baldesar Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier on European culture. Specifically, argue that the Courtier had a profound influence on Elizabethan England and its cultural development. I achieve this goal by examining various genres of literature during this period, and analyze Castiglione’s effect on the author’s writing and attitudes exhibited in the works. In examining a treatise, play, and epic romance, I surmise that various facets of Castiglione’s seminal work influenced these forms in unique. Each work I examined utilizes the Courtier in putting forth and strengthening their own views of how society should act. Thus, examining these works through a Castiglionian lens provide a microcosm of what other Elizabethans were thinking at this time. Whether they consciously knew it, the English population, especially the aristocracy, absorbed Castiglione’s ideologies and integrated them into a developing English society. This thesis provides a template for such an examination.

subject

Castiglione

Renaissance Literature

The Book of the Courtier

Philip Sidney

John Lyly

George Puttenham

contributor

Valbuena, Olga (committee chair)

Holdridge, Jefferson (committee member)

Ettin, Andrew (committee member)

date

2010-05-07T20:19:27Z (accessioned)

2010-06-18T18:57:58Z (accessioned)

2010-05-07T20:19:27Z (available)

2010-06-18T18:57:58Z (available)

2010-05-07T20:19:27Z (issued)

degree

English (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/14731 (uri)

language

en_US (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

rights

Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide. (accessRights)

type

Thesis