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- catalog abstract ""Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional - physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of the traditional class hierarchy."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13127370.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1485-1603.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional - physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of the traditional class hierarchy."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-228) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: "A treatise of sport" -- The legacy of the anti-sport polemic -- Sport and the idle nobility in Shakespeare's Henry VI -- Performative interpretations: the literacy context of the Book of sports controversy -- The burden of the present: athletic and poetic competition in the Annalia Dubrensia -- The danger of "innocent, harmless mirth": Walton's Compleat angler in the interregnum -- "When to thir sports they [re]turn'd": Samson Agonistes and the politics of restoration sport.".
- catalog extent "239 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance.".
- catalog identifier "0874138442 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1485-1603.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/357 22".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR428.S75 S46 2003".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Renaissance England.".
- catalog subject "Sports England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Sports England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Sports Political aspects England.".
- catalog subject "Sports in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: "A treatise of sport" -- The legacy of the anti-sport polemic -- Sport and the idle nobility in Shakespeare's Henry VI -- Performative interpretations: the literacy context of the Book of sports controversy -- The burden of the present: athletic and poetic competition in the Annalia Dubrensia -- The danger of "innocent, harmless mirth": Walton's Compleat angler in the interregnum -- "When to thir sports they [re]turn'd": Samson Agonistes and the politics of restoration sport.".
- catalog title "Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance / Gregory M. Colón Semenza.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".