Shakespeare's Petruchio: A Renaissance Gentleman
FAIN: FT-11522-73
Joseph A. Meigs
Western Carolina University (Cullowhee, NC 28723-9646)
To study the courtesy literature of 16th century England in order to show with supporting evidence the complex nature of a gentleman in the 16th century and to show how much the courtesy writers valued the ability in a gentleman to know when to break the rules.