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Criticism 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.Sharpe, Kevin is the author of 'Criticism and Compliment The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I' with ISBN 9780521386616 and ISBN 0521386616.
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