Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

5-1970

Keywords

Neville, William, Castell of pleasure, poem, late medieval literature

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

English, General Literature, and Rhetoric

First Advisor

Bernard P. Huppe

Second Advisor

Marlo DiCesare

Third Advisor

John Weld

Subject Heading(s)

Neville; William; Castell of pleasure; poem; late medieval literature; English Language and Literature

Abstract

Few English poems have been neglected more than William Nevilll's The Castell of. Pleasure. Following Henry Pepwell' s reprint ( 1518) of Wynkyn de Worde' s original edition, the poem has been reprinted only twice. Scholarly criticism of the poem is even rarer than are its editions.

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