Fenwick Scholar Program
Date of Award
5-2006
Project Type
Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
Helen Whall
Second Advisor
Christine Coch
Abstract
This project was created out of one key observation about the English Renaissance: that the poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries had to deal with social pressures, influences, and expectations far more directly than their eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth-century, or contemporary counterparts. The struggle to establish an individual and innovative identity was as much a motivation for these poets as for any artists, yet the unique political circumstances that surrounded them called for a clever strategy, one inspired by continental models, the taking on of the submissive stance.
Recommended Citation
Duffy, Timothy J., "From Court to Collar: Post-Elizabethan Poetics and the Submissive Stance" (2006). Fenwick Scholar Program. 14.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/fenwick_scholar/14