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C.S Lewis comment on Nashe’s pamphlet war with Gabriel Harvey?

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Lewis describes Nashe’s style as “unfair, illogical, violent, extravagant, coarse, but then… that is the joke,” similar to the reader’s experience in The Unfortunate Traveller.

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How does Puttenham describe the poet’s craft?

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A: Puttenham compares the poet to a carpenter, joiner, or shoemaker

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How did the publishing output change from 1500-1659?

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Both writers in time of increased printing of books

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What is the introductory line regarding Jack Wilton’s narrative?

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A: “It standes not with your honours (I assure ye) to haue a gentleman and a page abusde in his absence.”

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What is the conclusion about the author’s motivation?

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A: “If herein I haue pleased any, it shall animate me to more paynes in this kinde. Otherwise I will sweare vpon an English Chronicle, neuer to bee outlandish Chronicler more while I liue.”

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Q: How does Nashe express materialism and profit in his work?

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A: He says, “if you set any price on them, I hold my labour well satisfied,” and refers to readers as “as many as will pay money enough to peruse my story,” addressing Earl Southampton.

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Q: How does Nashe compare his work to leaves and branches?

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“this handful of leaves”

“Your lordship is the large spreading branch” from which his “idle leaves seek to derive their whole nourishing,” plus the reader.

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Q: How does the narrator introduce Jack Wilton?

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A: “A proper fellow page of yours, called Jack Wilton, by me commends him unto you, and hath bequeathed for waste paper here amongst you certain pages of his misfortunes.

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Q: What are the suggested alternative uses for the text?

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A: Wrapping shoes, drying and kindling tobacco. ironises the superficial nature of other pages

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What warning does the conclusion give about the manuscript of ‘Lenten Stuffe’?

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A: It will be condemned as “playing with a shettlecocke, or tossing empty bladders in the air.”

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How does Jason Scott-Warren interpret Nashe’s ‘stuff’?

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A: “‘Stuff’ is a word for matter which doesn’t matter, which is precisely Nashe’s matter.”

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Q: How does Jack Wilton describe himself?

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a certain kind of an appendix or page.”

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What moral question does Nashe pose?

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A: “Which of us all is not a sinner?”

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How does Nashe interrupt his own narrative?

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A: He says, “soft, let me drink before I go any further,” pulling the reader into a conversation and losing their control over putting the book down.

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What do Richards say about Nashe’s prose style?

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A: Nashe’s prose has many ‘live moments’ with changes of direction or gestures of inclusion.

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How does Nashe contrast his tone with cider merchants and the reader?

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“I, being by nature inclined to mercy (for indeed I knew two or three good wenches of that name).”

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How does Nashe address his readers?

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A: “Gentle readers (look you be gentle now, since I have called you so)… as freely as my knavery was mine own, it shall be yours to use in the way of honesty.”

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How does Nashe describe a foolish captain’s gestures?

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A: “You would have laughed your face and your knees together.”

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What advice does Nashe give to the captain?

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A: “Be ruled by me.”

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What question does Nashe pose about the tragedy, and what is the answer regarding John Leyden?

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“What is there more as touching this tragedy that you would be resolved of? Say quickly, for now is my pen on foot again.” John Leyden died “like a dog.”

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Nashes describe the Earl of Surrey as liberality itself?

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if in this iron age there were any such creature as liberality left on the earth.”

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What quote highlights the base lowly style of prose

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The Duke “from prose would leap into verse.”

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Prose as a persuasion tool

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simplicity of his speech persuades ‘caught the bird’ of Heraclides unlike the duke’s prattling

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When the duke discards the terms of chastity and continency what does Nashe say?

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I thought his company the better by a thousand crowns

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After describing Duke's fall from lofty virtue what does Wilton say
‘Earth is earth, flesh is flesh; earth will to earth and flesh unto flesh; frail earth, frail flesh, who can keep you from the work of your creation'
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Q: What rhetorical device underscores the origin-return dynamic in the line about earth and flesh?
A: Chiasmus emphasizes the cycle of death and return to origin—dust to dust.
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Q: How does the anaphora in “earth is earth, flesh is flesh” function?
A: It heightens vulnerability, stressing bodily weakness and spiritual fragility.
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Q: How does the rhetorical question “who can keep you from the work of your creation” relate to theological thought?
A: It expresses the paradox that to fulfill creation is to decay—drawing on Augustinian/Calvinist theology where mortality is the proper end of fallen man.
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Q: What does the Duke of Saxony’s speech say about language and emptiness?
A: “Emptying their phrase books, the air emptied his entrails… a thousand quemadmodums and quapropters he came over him with” critiques empty rhetorical flourish.
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How does Wilson satirically describe the Duke’s language?
A: He calls it “choice stuff... as there is a choice even amongst rags gathered up from the dunghill.”
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Jack as a voyeur to the rape scene
“I through a cranny of my upper chamber unsealed, had beheld all this sad spectacle”
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Description of words after rape
Coniecture the rest, my words sticke fast in the myre and are cleane tyred
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What warnings does the Earl give about travel and trust?
“Beleeue nothing, trust no man'
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How does the Earl criticses travelling
form of slavery and humiliation (Cain curse, Israelite exile), forsake freedom at home to be servile abroad, traveller experiences many evils
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What does the narrator say before describing Zadok’s execution?
A: “I’ll make short work, for I am sure I have wearied all my readers.”
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How is Zadok’s execution described?
A: Through grotesque, disembodied description “limb by limb.”
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What does the narrator hope readers will feel while reading Beware the Cat?
in the reading think they hear M. Streamer speak, and he him self... shal dout whether he speaketh or readeth.”
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How is the editorial process described?
Master Streamer helps edit, showing layered perspective.
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Retrospection from both editor and streamer intermix
[A wise man may in some things chauge his opinion.] (but I was against it then)
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What line highlights full disclosure to the listeners (reader) in Beware the Cat?
A: “[Nothing may be hid from Freends] and because you be all my freends that are heere: I wil hide nothing from you
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What does the editor pre-emptively say about poetic inspiration?
A: “[Heer the poeticall furie came vpon him]” – describing noise and frenzy before it begins.
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What classical authority does Beware the Cat draw on, and what does it question?
A: Refers to House of Fame—an oxymoron where the appeal to authority also critiques textual permanence and stability.
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GB bases authority on unreliable narrator Streamer
“were it not for the approoued authoritie of the Extaticall Author of whom I heard it: I should my self be as doutful as they”
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What narrative technique does William Baldwin experiment with in Wonderful News of the Death of Paul III that he uses again in Beware the Cat and A Mirror for Magistrates?
He presents himself as a compiler or editor of a feigned narrative, creating a fictional framework that emphasizes its fictionality while stressing its relevance to Baldwin’s contemporary audience.
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How does Baldwin's formal structure contrast with Streamer’s narration in Beware the Cat?
Baldwin uses a carefully constructed framework, whereas Streamer's tale is erratic and gossipy—exposing the potential for print to mislead or destabilize truth.
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What does Streamer claim about the sources of his knowledge, and how does it affect the authority of philosophy?
A: He says he knows ” equating written knowledge with rumour and thereby reducing the authority of philosophers.
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What does Streamer's process of gathering knowledge suggest about the boundaries between truth and rumour?
A: In Streamer’s discourse, knowledge and hearsay become interchangeable, blurring the lines between empirical proof and speculative gossip.
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What does martin Elksy see shifting in the Renaissance view of language?
referential to a conventional view - words create reality rather than reflect it - giving streamer's chaotic speech moral weight - reflects and reinforcing his inner disorder - Baldwin criticises language's power to mask moral chaos with false authority
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What example highlights the disconnect between Streamer’s narration and G.B.’s gloss?
A: Streamer: “I set me down upon my bed and devised upon the doings of these cats” vs. G.B.’s gloss: “The good housewife’s candle never goeth out”—a mismatch that exposes interpretive instability.
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What did early Protestant Bible translators believe about marginal glosses like the Glossa Ordinaria?
glosses obscured the Word of God and should be removed to make scripture clearer and more accessible.
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How does Beware the Cat critique Protestant glosses as well as Catholic ones?
A: It parodies both, including Protestant glosses like those in the 1549 Matthew Bible, which drew attention to doctrinal controversy.
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What does Nancy A. Guttierrez say about gaps between text and gloss for the reader
Reader has ‘to pay attention not to what is being said but to how it is said
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When was the first half of Beware the Cat written, and under what monarch?
The first half was written in 1553, during the final days of Edward VI’s reign
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What major religious changes were happening when Beware the Cat was first written?
A: The Mass was abolished, and transubstantiation and the doctrine of the Real Presence were rejected as “superstitions.”
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Why couldn’t Beware the Cat be published under Mary I?
Because Mary I reinstated Catholic practices, making the book’s anti-Catholic satire politically dangerous and unacceptable.
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When was Beware the Cat first printed, and under whose reign?
A: It was first printed in 1570, under Elizabeth I—seven years after Baldwin’s death.
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What happened in 1584 regarding Beware the Cat?
A: It was re-released with an additional poem, aligning with renewed fears of Catholic plots during the 1580s. (possibly by Thomas Knell the Younger)
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How does the book change depending on its context and audience?
Beware the Cat shifts in voice and apparent authorial intent depending on its historical moment and the religious opinions of its readers.
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How is the suicide note formatted in both the 1584 and modern editions of Beware the Cat?
A: It is printed with indentation and without any marginal commentary.
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What rhetorical feature dominates the suicide note, and what effect does it have?
A: The use of repetition, especially the word “Cursed,” which emphasizes emotional intensity and addresses an implied listener.
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In context, who might have read the note aloud?
A: It could have been read aloud by the young wife if GB, Streamer, or the mouse-slayer could hear it
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How is deception achieved in the mouse-slayer story, according to the narrative?
A: Not through sorcery, but by manipulating language to direct the imagination and create fake material “proof.”
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How does the letter contribute to the unreliability of the text?
questionable authorship ironic signature by “G.S.” (Gregory Streamer)
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What does the letter represent for Clare Kinney
concern “with the dangers of hearsay and mediated tradition”
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What is the function of the “Epistle Dedicatory” by G.B. to John Young?
A: It emphasizes the truthfulness of the Christmas conversation with Streamer and Ferrers, framing the story as historical and verbatim.
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Who is John Young, the addressee of the “Epistle Dedicatory”?
A: A courtier to whom Baldwin dedicates the text, possibly to lend it credibility and status.
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Q6: What role does “The Argument” play in the text’s framing?
A: It elaborates the narrative’s setting and introduces a conversation involving Baldwin, Streamer, George Ferrers, and Ferrers’ personal astronomer.
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According to Clare Kinney, how can “Master Streamer’s Oration” be described rhetorically?
A: As a “crazy quilt of different rhetorical modes,” reflecting the fragmented and unstable nature of the narrative.
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How does the Hymn reinforce the instability of authority in the text?
A: By shifting closure and authority from the editor G.B. to the unpredictable voice of Streamer and involving the reader directly.
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What is the smallest 'box' in the narrative frames'
a tale told by Mouse-slayer
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What influential humanist treatise criticized imaginative literature around the same time as Beware the Cat?
A: Roger Ascham’s The Schoolmaster, written shortly after Beware the Cat and published at the same time.
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Who wrote a famous rebuttal defending literature, and what was the work called?
A: Philip Sidney wrote Defence of Poesy
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How does Beware the Cat contribute to Elizabethan debates about fiction?
A: It warns against fiction within fiction and satirizes its power to mislead—anticipating a kind of reader-response theory.
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How was Beware the Cat marketed to readers?
A: As a “very pleasant and merry to read” tale, popular across all social classes.
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What does John N. King argue in English Reformation Literature about Baldwin’s Beware the Cat?
A: It provokes a critical reading attitude by juxtaposing the frankly fictional with the fictionally real, encouraging readers to become aware of how fiction operates.
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How does Baldwin’s text treat individual experience, according to critics?
A: It questions individual experience as unreliable (as represented by Streamer) and endorses communal origin and collective knowledge.
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How does Phillips interpret Baldwin’s goal for his readers?
A: As community-creating: Baldwin fosters a community of perceptive, critically engaged readers who understand knowledge as collective rather than individual.
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What is a key feature of A Mirror for Magistrates (1559) similar to Beware the Cat?
A: Both display a distinct interest in the textualization of plural and potentially competing voices.
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Which intellectual works does Baldwin’s style echo?
A: More’s Utopia and Erasmus’s Praise of Folly.
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How does Baldwin’s use of vernacular affect the authority of utterances?
A: It levels all utterances, making them equally authoritative.
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What metaphor can be drawn from the potion which "purges exceedingly," expelling a pint of rheum and mucus.
A: It can be compared to his messy delivery of oral wisdom.
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ow is Mouse-slayer’s delivery different from the potion streamer’s?
A: It is better organized, episodic without digressions, with ritual formality addressing judges, and a plain style free from stylistic clumsiness.
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According to Betteridge, how is Mouse-slayer’s voice characterized?
A: As both the most transgressive and the most authoritative among the speakers.
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What role do printers and cats share according to Maslen?
A: Both are irrepressible disseminators of sensitive information.
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Q: According to Bonahue, how does each element in the text function?
A: Each element operates as a self-contained entity and also marks a narrative border to be confronted and crossed by the reader.
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Q: What does John Bonahue say about the gloss and the imputed author G.B.?
A: The gloss is self-subverting, and G.B., the imputed author, deconstructs his own authority.
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What does Betteridge write about folly in Baldwin
“The folly of writing such a slippery feline work is perhaps only exceeded by the foolishness of those who seek to collar Beware the Cat.”
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How do Nashe’s glosses in 'Pierce' differ from traditional glosses?
A: Instead of explaining, they confuse, joke, or argue with the text.
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What example shows Nashe’s gloss as inappropriate? pierce
A: Quoting Ovid’s “lighten fated evil with words” next to a complaint about not getting paid.
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According to Griffiths, what do Nashe’s asides represent? Pierce
A: They are a highly self-conscious performance of the writer’s self, suggesting the writer is a fictional figure created by the speaking voice on the page.
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Where did Baldwin work in the late 1540s?
Baldwin worked in Edward Whitchurch’s printing house during the printing of Erasmus’ Paraphrases
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hat was the aim of Erasmus’s Paraphrases?
A: To clarify the New Testament books by translating them into a first-person, spoken idiom.
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How should readers engage with English translations of Erasmus’s Paraphrases and the Bible?
A: Readers/hearers should engage cautiously, as both were unclear and needed extensive introductions to frame, interpret, and critique.
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What is "paratext"?
A: Elements surrounding the main text such as title pages, illustrations, prefatory addresses, marginal commentary, and different fonts that guide readers silently.
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How does G. B. in Beware the Cat use the margins?
A: To try to turn an oral tale into something “book-like.”
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What did C. S. Lewis say about Nashe’s writing style?
A: That if asked what Nashe “says,” the answer would be “Nothing”
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What metaphor describes Aretino's writing, which is like Nashe?
A: His writing is like a "burning glasse" (burning glass) concentrating the sun’s rays on the reader to set them “on fire” emotionally. LINK TO WASTEPAPER
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Why did Nashe admire Aretino?
A: For his stylistic intensity and emotive power, not for moral instruction. “His stile was the spiritualitie of artes, and nothing else”
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What is "urban fiction" in Nashe’s Unfortunate Traveller?
A: A move from courtly romance prose with aristocratic characters to focusing on ordinary, normal people.

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