The Ship of Fools

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The Ship of Fools

work by Barclay

Also known as: “The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde”

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Sebastian Brant
…verse by Alexander Barclay (The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde) and another in prose by Henry Watson, and it gave rise to a whole school of fool’s literature. Yet Brant essentially looks backward; he is not a forerunner of the Reformation nor even a true humanist but rather…
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…verse by Alexander Barclay (The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde) and another in prose by Henry Watson, and it gave rise to a whole school of fool’s literature. Yet Brant essentially looks backward; he is not a forerunner of the Reformation nor even a true humanist but rather…
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Alexander Barclay
…Sebastian Brant, which he called The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde (first printed 1509).
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…Sebastian Brant, which he called The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde (first printed 1509).
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English literature
The transition from medieval to Renaissance
…of Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff as The Ship of Fools (1509) is a thoroughly medieval satire on contemporary folly and corruption. The Pastime of Pleasure (completed in 1506; published 1509) by Stephen Hawes, ostensibly an allegorical romance in Lydgate’s manner, unexpectedly adumbrates the great Tudor theme of academic cultivation as a…
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…of Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff as The Ship of Fools (1509) is a thoroughly medieval satire on contemporary folly and corruption. The Pastime of Pleasure (completed in 1506; published 1509) by Stephen Hawes, ostensibly an allegorical romance in Lydgate’s manner, unexpectedly adumbrates the great Tudor theme of academic cultivation as a…
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