Gavin Schwartz-Leeper, Ph.D. (University of Sheffield, 2013) is the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Liberal Arts) at the University of Warwick. His research considers early modern print history, transdisciplinary pedagogy, and issues of representation and perception in Renaissance England.

• List of ImagesAcknowledgementsIntroductionSpeaking nothing but truth: Problems, Structure, and SubjectChapter IRayling and Scoffery: Henrician Portrayals of Cardinal WolseyAgainst Venemous Tongues and Magnyfycence: early anti-Wolsey textsAfter Magnyfycence: Speaking Parrots, Everymen, and the Alter Rex1522: Reversals, Capitulations, and the Question of Wolsey’s PatronageGodly Queene Hester: The Codification of Early Tudor Anti-Wolsey SatireHester in Context: Heritage and EffectChapter II“A vysage of trwthe”: George Cavendish’s Characterizations of WolseyThe Metrical Visions: Rota Fortuna and Wolsey’s LamentationsCardinal Wolsey in the Metrical VisionsLe Historye in ContextPlacing the VisionsThe Life and Death of Cardinal WolseyChapter III“The history of a certaine ridiculous spectacle”: Literary Representations of Cardinal Wolsey in John Foxe’s Acts and MonumentsThe First Four English Editions: A Brief OverviewA Ridiculous Spectacle“See a butchers dogge”The King’s Great MatterThe Significant DeathChapter IV‘Handling This Story Effectualie’: Editorializing Wolsey in Holinshed’s ChroniclesThe 1577 Edition: Holinshed and WolseyWolsey, Post-Holinshed: Abraham Fleming and the 1587 EditionTo “frankelie and boldlie speak”: Methods and ConcernsLooking ForwardChapter V‘Griped By Meaner Persons’?: Wolsey in Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII, or, All is TrueMirrors of Courtesy: Buckingham, Norfolk, and WolseyMaking Greatness Familiar: Ceremony and Processions in Henry VIIIKatherine and Wolsey: Representations in ConflictFalling like Lucifer: Wolsey’s Final Appearances in Henry VIIIEulogizing and Summarizing Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIIIConclusionTraduced by Ignorant Tongues?BibliographyIndex