Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, c. 1400-1680

This book is the first major study of dialogue in England from the fifteenth to the late seventeenth century: a ''golden age'' of dialogue, and a crucial period for its development. The spread of humanist education placed a premium on classical forms (including dialogue), whilst the discourse of commonweal had natural affinities with a literary model that evoked, at least on paper, a sense of poly...