index 509“Phyllyp Sparrowe” (Skelton).
See “Philip Sparrow” (Skelton)
“Physician’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
101, 195
physiognomy 319, 467
pictura 162
Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede 10,
319–320, 330
Piers Plowman (Langland) 240,
300, 320–330, 345
alliteration in 9, 273
on Black Death 84, 322,
325–326, 329
dream vision in 151, 273,
283, 310, 320–330
editor of 131
Lollardism in 208, 249,
283, 322, 323, 327
passus in 310–311, 321
Peasants’ Revolt and 316,
320, 327
as satire 240, 323, 324,
329, 352
on seven deadly sins 325,
327, 356
texts inspired by 10, 208,
282, 283
Piers Plowman : Prologue
(Langland) 322–323
Piers Plowman: Passus 1
(Langland) 323–324, 326
Piers Plowman: Passus 2
(Langland) 324–325
Piers Plowman: Passus 6
(Langland) 325–327
Piers Plowman: Passus 7
(Langland) 327
Piers Plowman: Passus 17
(Langland) 327–329
Piers Plowman: Passus 19 and 20
(Langland) 329–330
Piers Plowman tradition 132,
163, 249, 320, 322, 330–331,
402
“Pillar perished is whereto I
leant, The” (Wyatt) 331–332
Pindar 39
Pindaric ode 427
plague. See Black Death
Plato 52, 140–141, 387, 452
Platonic idea 46, 52, 53, 59,
60, 368
Plowman’s Tale, The 330, 402
pneumonic plague 83
Poetic Edda 299
Poets of the Nobility 332
Poets of the Princes 332
Poins, John 276
Polychronicon (Higdon) 118
“Poor soul, the center of my
sinful earth” (Shakespeare).
See Shakespeare’s sonnets:
Sonnet 146
popular romance 347
Posies (Gascoigne) 256, 356
postcolonial critics 181, 190
Poynz, John. See Poins, John
printers 106–107, 142, 161,
208, 334, 474–475
“Prioress’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
101, 332–334, 343
“Prisoned in Windsor, He
Recounteth His Pleasure
There” (Surrey). See “So Cruel
Prison” (Surrey)
procreation sonnets
(Shakespeare) 358, 360–364,
365, 390
Prose Edda 299
Protestantism 157
Askew (Anne) on 71–72
on chivalry 116
Crowley (Robert) on 295
Dowriche (Anne
Edgecumbe) on 196–197
of Elizabeth I 146–147,
160, 161, 169, 175, 177,
197, 403, 404, 438, 444,
475–476
of Henry VIII 215
Herbert (Mary Sidney) on
403, 404, 407
of Huguenots 196–197,
336
in Piers Plowman tradition
322, 330
of Raleigh (Sir Walter) 336
of Sidney (Sir Philip) 36,
45, 109, 403, 408, 438
Spenser (Edmund) on 401,
402
Vaughan Lock (Anne) on
267
Prothalamion (Spenser) 251
Psalm 42 21
Psalm 128 20
Psalm translations 109, 131,
168–169, 216, 402–407,
437–438, 464–465
psychoanalytic critics 47–48,
283, 359, 469
Ptolemaic theory of universe 420
“Publishing Shame: The Rape of
Lucrece” (Kahn) 337
Purity. See Cleanness
Puttenham, George 334
Art of English Poesie 32–33,
311, 334, 355, 418, 479
Pynson, Richard 102, 115,
334, 475
pyrrhic foot 1Q
quadriga 170
quatorzain 335
quatrain 71, 237, 335, 424,
425
queer critics 102, 276, 307,
359, 412, 442Quiet of Mind, The (Wyatt) 331
Quintilian 7R
racism 392
Radcliffe, Thomas 285
Raleigh, Sir Walter 130, 336–
337, 439
“As You Came from the
Holy Land” 69
“Farewell False Love”
(Raleigh) 187
“The Lie” 247
“Methought I saw the
grave, where Laura lay”
268–269
“Nature That Washed Her
Hands in Milk” 287–288
on New World 288, 336
“The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd” 293–294,
310, 311
and Sidney (Robert) 245,
246
“Sir Walter Raleigh to his
Son” 416–417
and Spenser (Edmund) 8,
12, 173–174, 175, 178,
268–269, 424
“What is our Life?” 462
Rape of Lucrece, The
(Shakespeare) 158, 337–340,
357, 368, 423
Ravencroft, Thomas 435–436
“Reason, in faith thou art well
served, that still” (Sidney). See
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 10
(Sidney)
“Reeves Tale, The” (Chaucer)
87, 100, 173, 274, 340–342
refrain 342
Regiment of Princes (Hoccleve)
118, 163, 219, 238
Regula Pastoralis (Gregory the
Great) 6, 269–270
Reis, Edmund 246
Remedia Amoris (Ovid) 32, 302
Renaissance
alliteration used in 9
chiasmus used in 113
chivalry in 114–115, 116
classical tradition in 117,
156, 440–441
clothing in 61
conceit used in 122
cosmography in 52
courtly love in 131
education of women in
157
emblem in 162
four humors in 54, 191,
254
kingship theories in 34
lovesickness in 254, 255mirrors for princes in 278,
304
pastoral in 311
on reason 40, 46
on sight 40
solstice custom in 167
vernacular in 156
Renaissance Self-Fashioning
(Greenblatt) 183
Republic, The (Plato) 140–141,
387, 452
“Resignation” 125, 477
reverdie 192, 246, 342–343, 428
Reynard literature 76, 101, 273,
278, 292, 343
rhyme royal 343, 425
in ballade 70
by Chaucer (Geoffrey) 111,
165, 308, 332, 343, 441,
443
by Gower (John) 124
by Henryson (Robert) 216,
343
by James I 236, 343
by Lydgate (John) 187
in A Mirror for Magistrates
278
by Shakespeare (William)
251, 337, 343
by Skelton (John) 237
by Wyatt (Sir Thomas) 343,
434
Rich, Penelope Devereux. See
Devereux, Penelope
Richard II (king of England) 25,
84, 122, 125, 164, 203, 210,
249, 278, 316, 323, 332, 409,
426, 440, 443, 469
Richard III (king of England)
459
Richmond, Henry Fitzroy, duke
of 214, 418–419, 428, 463
riddles 5, 49. See also Anglo-
Saxon riddles
rime couée 344, 414, 431
ritornello 259
“Robene and Makyne”
(Henryson) 104, 216, 311,
344
Robert I the Bruce (king of
Scotland) 73, 93, 261, 345
Robert II (king of Scotland)
73, 93
Robin Hood ballads 70, 81–82,
208–209, 300, 343, 345,
346, 432
“Robin Hood’s Birth.” See “Birth
of Robin Hood, The”
“Robin Hood’s Death and Burial”
345–346
romance 346–347. See also
courtly love
chivalric oaths in 113
chivalry in 114, 115–116,
347