Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I TC_Bestseller His common sense told him

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Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I TC_Bestseller His common sense told himCriticism 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