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Novel and Society in Elizabethan England by David Margolies (review)

David Margolies' study of the Elizabethan novel reflects the current interest in a broader social spectrum in the sixteenth century than that in earlier studies of fiction. Among the works included, those by John LyIy are probably the only ones composed explicitly in terms of court readers, and even they became of interest to the bourgeoisie. Although Sidney's Arcadia also was (in addition to being in some sense a popular form), aimed primarily at aristocratic readers, much of the other fiction of the period was not. Margolies points out that such writers often addressed "gentlemen" readers, but with a clear understanding that most of them had only gentlemanly pretensions. Richard Johnson, for example, addressed The Nine Worthies of London to gentlemen readers "as well Prentices as others."