George Gascoigne Summary

George Gascoigne, amateur poet and gentleman, was the chief poet of the early Elizabethan period. As a writer supremely interested in proving the English language to be as fit a medium for poetry as o... Read more

In the following essay, Oldfield focuses on Gascoigne's marriage and apparent disinheritance and how these events are reflected in the poet's writings. Although many facts in the life... Read more

In the following essay, Williams illuminates the themes of the poem “Gascoigne's Memories: III.” In 1565 George Gascoigne, deeply in debt and searching for a way out, decided t... Read more

In the essay below, Sheidley contends that The Spoyle of Antwerpe is one of only a few contemporary works that has a direct appeal to modern readers. On Sunday, November 4, 1576, some 6,000 mutinou... Read more

In the essay which follows, Kneidel asserts that Gascoigne intentionally depicted himself in his writings as an internally divided individual. George Gascoigne returned to England from an undisting... Read more

In the essay that follows, Maveety examines the structure and meter of The Steele Glas, contending that the structure was heavily influenced by the fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman. In 1576 Ge... Read more

In the excerpt below, Johnson discusses Gascoigne's love lyrics, noting that while some display the conventions of courtly love poems, some are unusual for their examination of the psychology o... Read more

In this essay, Salamon contends that the play The Glasse of Government displays the values of Christian humanism. Scholarly inattention to George Gascoigne's The Glasse of Governement (1575)... Read more

In the essay below, Waters analyzes the importance of the narrator in The Adventures of Master F. J. When George Gascoigne first began to write his tale about a young, highly romantic lover and an ... Read more