Книга: Cavendish George «The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 1»

The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, Volume 1

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Cavendish, George

▪ English courtier and writer
born 1500
died 1561/62

      English courtier and writer who won a minor but lasting reputation through a single work, his Life of Cardinal Wolsey (Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal), a landmark in the development of English biography, an important document to the student of Tudor history, and a rare source of information on the character of the author himself. Cavendish applied to his subject methods of concrete observation in matters of behaviour, gesture, and speech, so that in his shapely and unaffected narrative the figure of the cardinal emerges with an air of life. Besides thus anticipating later biographical principles, Cavendish, though still close to medieval tragedy in conceiving Wolsey's rise and fall as governed by Fortune's wheel, moved away from the older idea that biographies should deal only with saints or royal personages.

      About 1526 Cavendish entered Wolsey's service as a gentleman usher and remained loyal to him from the height of his power to his rapid fall under the disfavour of Henry VIII. This position of trust afforded Cavendish a valuable eyewitness impression of the cardinal, especially in his final days of crumbling magnificence. After Wolsey's death in 1530 Cavendish left public employment and retired to Suffolk, where in 1557 he completed his Life, undertaken in his later years partly with the intention of supplying a truthful report of the cardinal's career.

      The Life was not printed until 1641, and then only in a mangled form, but it did circulate in complete form in manuscript and was used by the historians John Stow and Raphael Holinshed when they were compiling their Chronicles. A restored text first appeared in 1815; the standard modern edition is in Two Early Tudor Lives, edited by Richard S. Sylvester and Davis P. Harding (1962).

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Источник: Cavendish, George

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