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This book surveys the phenomenon of Renaissance verse libel and provides carefully edited texts of fifty-two of these insulting manuscript poems, most of them made available here for the first time. Difficult and unusual words in these poems are glossed, while the commentary explains who is being attacked and why Cover -- Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland -- Copyright -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Works -- Contents -- Introduction: Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland -- 1. Libels and English Literature -- 2. Libeling and the Law -- 3. T he Social Impact of Libeling -- 4. Verse Libels in Print: the Early Tudors -- 5. Printed Verse Libel -- 6. Verse Libels in Manuscript -- 6a. Medieval Libels -- 6b. Early Tudor Libels in Manuscript -- 6c. Elizabethan Verse Libel and Scribal Publication -- 7. Categories of Verse Libel -- 7a. Unclassified Libels 7b. Libels at Court -- 7c. Religious Libels -- 7d. Libelling in Sc -- 7d. Libelling in Scotland -- 7e. Inns of Court Libels -- 7f. Parliamentary Libels -- 7g. University Libels -- 8. The Aesthetics of Libeling -- 8a. Voice -- 8b. Symbols and Figurative Language -- 8c. Libellous Prosody -- 9. The Elizabethan Heritage: From Tudor to Stuart Libels -- 10. Editorial Principles -- Texts and Commentary -- 1: Poems 1-9, Representative Libels,1562-1594 -- Poem 1: Sir Thomas Chaloner's "Wanton Bird" (1562) -- Commentary, Poem 1 -- Poem 2: The Bashe Libel (c. 1575-83) -- Commentary, Poem 2 Poems 3-4: Robert Commander's attack on Hugh Shadwell and the Response (1573) -- Poem 3: In vituperationum cuiusdam Hugonis Shadwell olim Marescalli Walliae -- Poem 4: In Laudem cuiusdam Hugonis Shadwell quondam Marischalli Cure et causarum eiusdem in Principatu[s] Wallie et marcharum hoc insigne Epitaphium sequens fuit edit Anno Dmi 158 [blank] -- Commentary, Poems 3-4 -- Notes, Poem 3 -- Notes, Poem 4 -- Poem 5: Attack on William Painter, c. 1560 -- Commentary, Poem 5 -- Poem 6: Sir Thomas Stanhope against John Markham, 1592 -- Poem 7: John Markham's response, 1592 -- Commentary, Poems 6-7 Poem 8 -- Commentary, Poem 8 -- Poem 9: A Kentishe Lybell for A Keyte (1594) -- Commentary, Poem 9 -- Textual Note -- II: Poems 10-20, Court Libels -- Poem 10: To Jezabel, 1587 -- Commentary, Poem 10 -- Poems 11-12 -- Poem 11: The Lords do now Crave all, c. 1585 -- Poem 12a -- Poem 12b: Anthony Standen, I find no Peace, c. 1596 -- Commentary, Poems 11, 12a, 12b -- Textual Notes, Poem 12b -- Textual Notes -- Poems 13-14: Mock Epitaphs on the Earl of Leicester -- Poem 13: 'Little Robin' (1588) -- Commentary, Poem 13 -- Poem 14: Richard Verstegan (alias Rowlands), 'The Worthy Warrior', 1592 Commentary, Poem 14 -- Textual Notes -- Poem 15: 'Chamberlain, Chamberlain' (c. 1601) -- Commentary, Poem 15 -- Textual Notes -- Poem 16a-h: Thomas Wright's Emblem Verses (November, 1595) -- Poem 16a -- Poem 16b -- Poem 16c -- Poem 16d -- Poem 16e -- Poem 16f -- Poem 16g -- Poem 16h -- Commentary, Poems 16a-h -- Textual Notes -- Variant Readings -- Poem 17: 'Admire all Weakness' (1599) -- Commentary, Poem 17 -- Textual Notes -- Poem 18: Henry Cuffe's Dream (1599-1600) -- Commentary, Poem 18 -- Textual Notes -- Poem 19: Against Sir Robert Cecil (c. 1598-1603) -- Commentary, Poem 19 Poem 20: Against Lord Admiral Howard (c. 1599)
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