Kate De Rycker spoke about the rhetoric of fame in Elizabethan England as part of the one day symposium in Oxford, Art & Action: Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics (5th March, 2016). Using the examples of the 'Marprelate Controversy' as well as the response by 'anti-martinists' such as Nashe, her paper argued that celebrity can be considered as a developing concept in the 16th Century. You can hear a podcast here.
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