index 501classical tradition 7, 81, 116–
119, 156, 158, 302, 440–441
Cleanness 10, 119–120, 203,
312, 409
Clement VII (pope) 214–215
“Clerk’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
87, 100, 101, 243, 317, 334,
343
“Cock and the Fox, The”
(Henryson). See Morall Fabillis:
“The Cock and the Fox”
(Henryson)
“Cock and the Jasp, The”
(Henryson) 279
Codex Exoniensis. See Exeter
Book
Codex Regius 299
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 359
Colonne, Guido delle 117, 257,
441, 442
“Come, let me write. ‘And to
what end?’ To ease” (Sidney).
See Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet
34 (Sidney)
“Come away, come sweet love”
(Dowland) 104, 120–121
“Come sleep! O sleep the certain
knot of peace” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 39
(Sidney)
comitatus 121, 150, 456, 458
Commedia (Dante). See Divine
Comedy (Dante)
“Comming to kisse her lyps—
such grace I found” (Spenser).
See Amoretti: Sonnet 64
(Spenser)
complaint 121, 168, 445
by Barnfield (Richard) 133,
134
by Chaucer (Geoffrey)
121–122, 320, 441
by Gascoigne (George) 474
by Gower (John) 124
by Langland (William) 329,
330
in pastourelle 311
by Raleigh (Sir Walter) 69,
287
by Shakespeare (William)
121, 252, 398, 401
by Sidney (Sir Philip) 65,
66
by Spenser (Edmund) 185
by Whitney (Isabella) 103
by Wyatt (Sir Thomas) 276,
277
“Complaint by Night of the
Lover Not Beloved, A”
(Surrey). See “Alas so all things
now do hold their peace...
” (Surrey)
“Complaint of Chaucer to his
Purse, The” (Chaucer) 121–
122, 238, 467
Compleat Angler, The (Walton)
293
concatenatio 314–315
conceit 122, 420
by Campion (Thomas) 89
by Daniel (Samuel) 142,
143, 144
by Davies (Sir John) 212
by Drayton (Michael) 223,
224
by Gascoigne (George)
473
by Shakespeare (William)
372, 379, 384, 388
by Sidney (Sir Philip) 41,
43, 44, 52, 55, 64, 141,
421
by Skelton (John) 237
by Spenser (Edmund) 8,
16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22,
175
by Wyatt (Sir Thomas) 122,
283
Confessio Amantis (Gower)
122–125, 210
and Chaucer (Geoffrey)
100, 123, 204, 262, 469
dream vision in 273
and Hoccleve (Thomas)
219
Ovid and 118, 123, 124,
302
Trojan War in 117
and The Weddynge of Sir
Gawen and Dame Ragnell
460, 469
confessional poem 238
consolatio (consolation) 125,
145
Consolation of Philosophy, The
(Boethius) 87, 125–127
and Chaucer (Geoffrey)
100, 111, 441, 443
Fortune in 126, 190, 236,
278
and James I 236
lament in 239
Orpheus in 416
translation of 6, 26, 111,
267–268
Constable, Henry 127
“To St Mary Magdalen”
436–437
Constantine the African 254
contempt for the world 127,
298
contemptus mundi 127
contrasto 311
“Cook’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
100, 173, 340, 431
Copernican theory of universe
420
Copy of a Letter, The (Whitney)
2, 228, 444, 464
corona 127–128, 142, 144“Corpus Christi Carol” 128,
271
Cotton, Sir Robert 128
Cotton Nero A.x 119, 203,
312, 409
Cotton Vitellius A.xv 26, 77,
128, 170, 232
Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia,
The (Sidney) 34, 43, 107,
109, 116, 117, 398, 408
couplet 129, 163, 335, 424,
425
court culture 129–130. See also
patronage
Chestre (Thomas) on
413–414
in fabliau 172
Gascoigne (George) on 202,
356
Gawain-poet on 203,
409–412
Greville (Sir Fulke) on 98
in King Horn 235
Marlowe (Christopher)
on 310
Raleigh (Sir Walter) on 247
satires on 352
Shakespeare (William)
on 380
Sidney (Sir Philip) on 47,
130, 142, 421
Wyatt (Sir Thomas) on 276,
277, 424–425, 465
courtly love 129, 130–131, 273
in “Alisoun” 6
Andreas Capellanus on 32
Aneirin on 482
in Arthurian literature 30,
130, 409–412, 413–414
Barbour (John) on 94
Barnfield (Richard) on
134
Blind Hary on 455
Charles d’Orléans on 191
Chaucer (Geoffrey) on 100,
274, 275, 292
Dafydd ap Gwilym on 443
Elizabeth I and 130, 131,
161
in “Foweles in the Frith”
192
Gower (John) on 210
hagiography and 213
Henryson (Robert) on 216,
344
in “In Praise of Mary” 227
lovesickness in 254
Marie de France on 159,
241
Reynard literature on 343
Sidney (Sir Philip) on 47
Skelton (John) on 473
in sonnets 420
Spenser (Edmund) on 16,
17Surrey (Henry Howard)
on 297
Wyatt (Sir Thomas) on 23,
84–85, 250, 259, 297,
419, 435
Crowley, Robert 131–132
and Langland (William)
322, 331
“Of Unsaciable Purchasers”
295–296
translations by 464
“Crowned King, The” 132–133,
330
Crusades 115
Cú Chulainn 77, 133, 154–155
Cultural Materialist critics 157
“Cupid lay by his brand and
fell asleep” (Shakespeare). See
Shakespeare’s sonnets: Sonnet
153
“Curious wits, seeing dull
pensiuenesse, The” (Sidney).
See Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet
23 (Sidney)
Cynewulf 1, 26, 171
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets
(Barnfield) 74, 133–137
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 1 (Barnfield) 134, 135
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 5 (Barnfield) 135
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 9 (Barnfield) 135
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 11 (Barnfield)
135–136
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 13 (Barnfield) 136
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 14 (Barnfield) 136
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 17 (Barnfield) 137
Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets:
Sonnet 19 (Barnfield) 137
cywydd 137, 138, 332, 442d
dactylic foot 1
Dafydd ap Gwilym 137, 138–
139, 332
“Trouble in a Tavern”
442–443
Daniel, Samuel 139
Delia 139, 142–145
and Drayton (Michael)
223
ekphrasis used by 158
and Herbert (Mary Sidney)
139, 216
danse macabre 239, 240
Dante Alighieri 8, 11, 100,
103, 111, 126, 170, 219, 220,
308, 309, 341, 415, 426,
436, 440