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English Historical Writing and Thought 1580-1640 (London: Routledge, 1962), p. 39. ' (The Life and Raigne, pp. 198-9). Hayward attributes Bolingbroke's return from exile to popular discontent and to the nobility's insistent pressures. This attitude, without any appeal to the contingent element of Hayward's connection with Essex, may be enough to explain the misgivings that the book raised. 67-72. Richard Brathwait argues against the presentation of different versions of facts. He says he has observed many errors 'where divers Authors were cited, and their severall opinions marshalled on a row: but as in a battele, when the wings be broken, there insueth nought but universall confusion; so without reconcilement in the conclusion, he [the historian] leaves the Reader in suspence whose opinion to entertain; because not directed by the Author' (The Schollers Medley: Or An Intermixt Discourse upon Historicall and Poeticall Relations, London, 1614, p.
81-113, 104. For arguments against extreme theories of misreading, see M. Pagnini, 'La conoscenza del testo', in Semiosi, 77-100. U. Eco, 'Intentio leetoris. The State of the Art', in The Limits of Interpretation, 44-63. In a review article of Eco's The Limits, M. Pagnini argues for the necessity of establishing, in connection with texts, an illtentio tell/poris. 'Argini contro la deriva', in L'indice dei Iibr; delli/esc V (1990), 20-1, p. 20. M. Pagnini, ibid. 2 The Tudor Historians' Dialogue with the Dead The general purposes shared by sixteenth- and early-seventeenthcentury English historians are explicitly formulated in almost all the dedications and introductions to the chronicles and, more extensively, in treatises on history-writing (these, however, were mostly written after the first decade of the seventeenth century).
22. 23. 24. Shakespeare the Historian conjoined'. Sidney ironised about the historian, 'laden with old mouseeaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundations of hearsay', A Defense of Poesy, 1595; my edn, A Defense of Poetry, ed. by J. A. van Dorsten (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966), p. 30. This last prescription, however, involved substantial risks. Since its central idea was that 'history repeats itself, the past is like the present, and the statesman may discover by reading history what is the proper course to be taken in the present', it follows that, if the historian's attitude was not orthodox, 'the argument of analogy [might be considered] treasonable' (Fussner, op.