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 permanent post at the University of Cambridge. Coming as he did from middling origins, his battles for public acceptance and for academic preferment often intermingled with his views on rhetoric and logic. His enthusiasm for the controversial Ramist program in the arts curriculum, as demonstrated in his Cambridge lectures on rhetoric in the mid 1570s and in his letters and marginalia in following decades, was partly responsible for his troubles. Harvey was lampooned in the anonymous 1580 Cambridge play Pedantius as a struggling university pedant bent on mastering the works of Petrus Ramus and Baldesar Castiglione who fails miserably in his pursuit of both love and court favor and is...