A Mirror for Magistrates "Television is the Che Guevara of modern society,' Senator William Proxmire warned, but since only twenty of his colleagues concurred in his assessment of this "revolutionary tool,' live television coverage is now a permanent feature of the world's...

Paul Budra. "A Mirror for Magistrates" and the "de casibus" Tradition. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000. xic + 119 pp. ISBN 0-8020-4717-3, $45.00. The Mirror for Magistrates enjoyed a brief period of popularity in Tudor England. Initially published in 1559 (although...

In the following excerpt, Geller discusses the frame story of A Mirror for Magistrates and the way it blurs the boundary between fact and fiction, arguing that it explores the indistinguishability of truth and lies in accounts of history, thus undermining its own veracity.

In the following essay, Howarth provides an account of Sackville's life and then considers his poetic contributions to A Mirror for Magistrates, which the critic argues were the most influential in the entire collection.

In the following essay, Gresham asserts that Baldwin is the most representative religious and moralistic writer of the years 1547 to 1553, showing how his writings help elucidate the complex nature of the English Reformation and merge didacticism with literary quality and accessibility.