Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I TC_Bestseller The product of two decades

The product of two decades of reporting

Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly game—one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim

and liberation

she soon discovers that people are not always who they seem

His common sense told him to refuse

Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I TC_Bestseller The product of two decadesCriticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by critics and characterised by historians as propaganda for Charles I's absolutism penned by sycophantic hirelings. Kevin Sharpe questions the assumptions on which these evaluations have been based. Challenging the