Gabriel Harvey was a poet and a writer who generated enough controversy that he was forced out of public life and into a thirty-year retirement. It was difficult for even Harvey 's friends and admirers to get along with him, but all who knew him,...

Broad-minded, ambitious, well-read, and socially inept, Gabriel Harvey was probably one of the most visible literary personalities of his day. Out of a prosperous middle-class background, he carved a multiform personal and public career. He became an...

Gabriel Harvey is today remembered primarily for associations with others: his friendship with Edmund Spenser, his enmity with Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene, his futile attempts to win favor with Queen Elizabeth's court, and his failure to win a...

It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage. Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author...

It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage.Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author of...

In the following essay, Wilson examines Harvey's Ciceronianus, describing its composition, context, contents, purpose, and style.

In the following essay, Cochrane discusses Harvey's response to Stefano Guazzo's A Civil Conversation, a Renaissance work of moral philosophy, and argues that Harvey considered the work an ideal text for life in the civil service and hoped to use it to achieve his own social success.

In the following essay, Quitslund examines the five letters between Spenser and Harvey that were published in 1580 and questions the trustworthiness of these documents as evidence about Spenser's personal life.