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Introduction - Tudor literature, drab or tarnished? Part 1 Earlier Tudorliterature: subversion in "The Towneley Cycle" - strategies for evil;sceptical historiography - Thomas More's "History of Richard III"; "To seekthe place where I myself had lost" - acts of memory in the poetry of HenryHoward, Earl of Surrey; William Turner's religious polemic as a polyvalentcultural intervention; "As a shadow to a body" - heresy, treason and the lawin the 16th century; the earliest Tudor witch in print - the examination ofJohn Walsh. Part 2 Elizabethan poetry and prose: revenge of the angel Gabriel- Harvey's "A Nobleman's Suit to a Country Maid"; late Tudor narrativevoice(s) - Philip Sidney and Barnaby rich; remapping Elizabethan courtpoetry; "Philip's Phoenix"? - Mary Sidney Herbert and the identity of author;veiling Medusa - Arthur's shield in "The Fairy Queen"; fashioning a Tudorbody - civility and state-formation in "The Fairy Queen" and "A View of thePresent State of Ireland". Part 3 Shakespeare and the drama: the British mythin Tudor drama; of clothing and coinage; Shakespeare's Henry V - Tudor orJacobean?; the role of body images in the Tudor myth and its subversion inShakespeare's history plays; "since forged invention former time defaced" -representing Tudor history in the 1590s.