The Culture and Rhetoric of the Answer Poem: 1485-1626

• CULTURE & RHETORIC HOME
• FORWARD
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• ORTHOGRAPHIC CONVENTIONS
• INTRODUCTION

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SECTION 1: POLEMIC: FLYTING, LIBEL AND SATIRE

Chapter 1: Responses to Libel and Satire

1. The Verse Libel
   1. A Sociological Perspective
   2. Verbal Duelling
   3. Proclamatory Answers
2. The Verse Satire
   1. Self Publicising Tudor Satirists
   2. John Skelton
   3. John Marston

Chapter 2: Domestic and Cross-Cultural Flyting

1. Cross-Cultural Flyting
   1. Anglo-French Flyting
   2. Anglo-Scottish Flyting
2. Domestic Flyting
   1. John Skelton and Christopher Garnish
   2. Thomas Smyth and William Gray
   3. Thomas Churchyard and Thomas Camel
   4. John Taylor and William Fennor

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SECTION 2: MARRIAGE, FRIENDSHIP COURTSHIP/COURTIERSHIP

Chapter 3: Answer Poetry and Marriage: 1550-1570

1. Pros and Cons of Marriage
2. Duties of Husbands and Wives

Chapter 4: Late Tudor Amicable Verse Exchanges

1. Barnabe Googe
2. Isabella Whitney
3. John Donne

Chapter 5: Women's answer-poetry and the female-voiced response

1. Henrician Answer Poetry
2. Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Answer Poetry
   1. Elizabeth I
   2. Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
   3. Lady Mary Cheke
   4. Lady Mary Wroth

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• CONCLUSION
• CATALOGUE OF ANSWER POETRY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY

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