Kipling, Gordon

Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne L

      Boydell & Brewer. New This is the first critical edition of The Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne, a text which chronicles Katharine of Aragon's arrival in England, her triumphal entry into London (1501), her marriage to Prince Arthur, the disguisings and tournament held in honour of that marriage, and Prince Arthur's death and funeral in Ludlow and Worcester a few months later. Divided into books and chapters, it casts its historical materials into the form of a medieval romance, occasionally borrowing cadences from Malory or Lord Berners to describe the actions of Katharine, Arthur and Henry VII.; No other contemporary source preserves such a full and vivid account of social history, visual arts, and drama in England at the beginning of the 16th-century. With the single exception of the interlude, which is well documented by a number of other texts, the Recyet provides a complete picture of the state of English court drama at a crucial point in its development. ISBN10: 0197222986.