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The term `Tudor literature' is increasingly being used to denote a new period, but it has not yet become certain when this period begins or ends. This chapter argues that there are two ways of interpreting the term: a `long' Tudor period, which tracks the royal fortunes of the house of Tudor from 1485 to 1603; and a `short' period, from roughly 1530 to 1580, which might be designated `mid-Tudor literature'. This central period witnessed the catastrophic termination of medieval literature as a result of the Henrician Reformation and its immediate aftermath in the tumultuous decades of the mid-sixteenth century.
Author(s): Pincombe MJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: The Yearbook of English Studies: Special Edition, Tudor Literature
Year: 2008
Volume: 38
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 1-16
Date deposited: 20/01/2011
ISSN (print): 0306-2473
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/yes/2008/00000038/F0020001/art00002
