Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Udall, Nicholas | Elizabeth Pittenger (essay date 1994)

Elizabeth Pittenger (essay date 1994)

SOURCE: Pittenger, Elizabeth. “‘To Serve the Queere’: Nicholas Udall, Master of Revels.” In Queering the Renaissance, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, pp. 162-89. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

[In the following essay, Pittenger examines material connected with Udall and attempts to gain insight into his suspected relationships with his pupils.]

Thence for my voice, I must (no choice)
Away of forse, like posting horse,
For sundrie men, had plagards then,
          such childe to take:
The better brest, the lesser rest,
To serve the Queere, now there now heere,
For time so spent, I may repent,
          and sorrow make.
                              …
From Paules I went, to Eaton sent,
To learne streight waies, the latin phraies,
Where fiftie three, stripes given to mee,
          at once I had:
For fault but small, or none at...

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