CRITICISM

Helgerson, Richard. “Gascoigne.” In Elizabethan Prodigals, pp. 44-56. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Explains how Gascoigne's love poetry provides information on its author.

LaGrandeur, Kevin. “Androgyny and Linguistic Power in Gascoigne's The Steele Glas.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 37, no. 3 (fall 1995): 344-61.

Explores technical innovations and the depiction of gender roles in The Steele Glas.

Nathan, Leonard. “Gascoigne's Lullabie and Structures in the Tudor Lyric.” In The Rhetoric of Renaissance Poetry from Wyatt to Milton, edited by Thomas O. Sloan and Raymond B. Waddington, pp. 58-72. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Demonstrates the influence of Gascoigne's poem The Lullabie of a Lover on the structure of the Tudor lyric.

Prouty, C. T. George Gascoigne: Elizabethan Courtier, Soldier and Poet. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1942, 351 p.

Complete and detailed account of Gascoigne's life and works.

Schelling, Felix. Life and Writings of George Gascoigne, with Three Poems Heretofore Not Reprinted. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1893, 131 p.

Comprehensive examination of Gascoigne's literary career and life.

Shore, David R. “Whythorne's Autobiography and the Genesis of Gascoigne's Master F. J.” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12, no. 2 (fall 1982): 159-78.

Suggests that Thomas Whythorne's Autobiography influenced Gascoigne's Adventures of Master F. J.

Additional coverage of Gascoigne's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 136; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2.