Educated at Exeter and Oxford, Matthew Woodcock taught in Oxford, Cork, and London before becoming Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Fairy in The Faerie Queene (2004), a reception history of Henry V (2008), and Sir Philip Sidney and the Sidney Circle (2010); and editor of an essay collection on Fulke Greville (2001). He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance literature and literary history, including articles on hagiography, fifteenth-century history, early modern archery, Holinshed's Chronicles, and Elizabethan entertainments. Building upon his existing work on Thomas Churchyard he is currently researching a wider study of Tudor soldier-authors, and--on a slightly different tack-- a short guide to the writings of Ian Fleming.

• Introduction: 'Saye that I live' 1: Origins (to 1543) 2: Roistering and Writing (1542-3) 3: The School of War (1543-7) 4: Scotland and Ireland (1547-51) 5: To Speak in Print (1551) 6: Attack and Defence (1551-6) 7: Mars and Mercury (1557-60) 8: Plying the Pen about the Court (1560-67) 9: With Princes and Beggars (1567-8) 10: Embattled on Many Fronts (1569-72) 11: Presentations (1572-4) 12: 'My Whole Workes' (1575) 13: Old Roads and New (1575-7) 14: Occasions and Opportunities (1570-80) 15: Martial Art (1578-80) 16: For Queen and Country (1580-89) 17: Rewards (1588-97) 18: Last Things (1594-1604) Appendix 1: Churchyard's Spelling Appendix 2: The Churchyards of Arley

Matthew Woodcock succeeds in making us look at it afresh to learn much about writing, fighting, constructing an authorial self, and overcoming the challenges of the professional authorship in the rapidly changing conditions of the late sixteenth-century England.

Educated at Exeter and Oxford, Matthew Woodcock taught in Oxford, Cork, and London before becoming Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Fairy in The Faerie Queene (2004), a reception history of Henry V (2008), and Sir Philip Sidney and the Sidney Circle (2010); and editor of an essay collection on Fulke Greville (2001). He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance literature and literary history, including articles on hagiography, fifteenth-century history, early modern archery, Holinshed's Chronicles, and Elizabethan entertainments. Building upon his existing work on Thomas Churchyard he is currently researching a wider study of Tudor soldier-authors, and--on a slightly different tack-- a short guide to the writings of Ian Fleming.

• Introduction: 'Saye that I live' 1: Origins (to 1543) 2: Roistering and Writing (1542-3) 3: The School of War (1543-7) 4: Scotland and Ireland (1547-51) 5: To Speak in Print (1551) 6: Attack and Defence (1551-6) 7: Mars and Mercury (1557-60) 8: Plying the Pen about the Court (1560-67) 9: With Princes and Beggars (1567-8) 10: Embattled on Many Fronts (1569-72) 11: Presentations (1572-4) 12: 'My Whole Workes' (1575) 13: Old Roads and New (1575-7) 14: Occasions and Opportunities (1570-80) 15: Martial Art (1578-80) 16: For Queen and Country (1580-89) 17: Rewards (1588-97) 18: Last Things (1594-1604) Appendix 1: Churchyard's Spelling Appendix 2: The Churchyards of Arley

Matthew Woodcock succeeds in making us look at it afresh to learn much about writing, fighting, constructing an authorial self, and overcoming the challenges of the professional authorship in the rapidly changing conditions of the late sixteenth-century England.

Educated at Exeter and Oxford, Matthew Woodcock taught in Oxford, Cork, and London before becoming Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Fairy in The Faerie Queene (2004), a reception history of Henry V (2008), and Sir Philip Sidney and the Sidney Circle (2010); and editor of an essay collection on Fulke Greville (2001). He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance literature and literary history, including articles on hagiography, fifteenth-century history, early modern archery, Holinshed's Chronicles, and Elizabethan entertainments. Building upon his existing work on Thomas Churchyard he is currently researching a wider study of Tudor soldier-authors, and--on a slightly different tack-- a short guide to the writings of Ian Fleming.

• Introduction: 'Saye that I live' 1: Origins (to 1543) 2: Roistering and Writing (1542-3) 3: The School of War (1543-7) 4: Scotland and Ireland (1547-51) 5: To Speak in Print (1551) 6: Attack and Defence (1551-6) 7: Mars and Mercury (1557-60) 8: Plying the Pen about the Court (1560-67) 9: With Princes and Beggars (1567-8) 10: Embattled on Many Fronts (1569-72) 11: Presentations (1572-4) 12: 'My Whole Workes' (1575) 13: Old Roads and New (1575-7) 14: Occasions and Opportunities (1570-80) 15: Martial Art (1578-80) 16: For Queen and Country (1580-89) 17: Rewards (1588-97) 18: Last Things (1594-1604) Appendix 1: Churchyard's Spelling Appendix 2: The Churchyards of Arley

Matthew Woodcock succeeds in making us look at it afresh to learn much about writing, fighting, constructing an authorial self, and overcoming the challenges of the professional authorship in the rapidly changing conditions of the late sixteenth-century England.