Leicester, Patron of LettersDescribes the relationship of the Elizabethan patron Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his proteges among the writers and scholars of his time in order to better understand the literary motivation in the English Renaissance and to illustrate the functioning of the patronage system in that age. |
Contents
The Nature of Elizabethan Literary Patronage | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 19 |
CHAPTER III | 59 |
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