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"Come home wilde heades, then gad no more abroad": Some Notions of 'Home' in the Writings of Thomas Churchyard.

Thomas Churchyard (1523?-1604) – soldier, poet, mercenary, spy, deviser of royal pageantry verses, epitaph writer, war ‘journalist’, pamphleteer and indefatigable seeker after preferment has been said to ‘typify’ the Englishman during the sixteenth century.

This was also a time when notions of ‘home’ did not embrace ideas of family, privacy, intimacy and the domestic that are taken for granted when conceptualising the word in the twenty-first century.

This paper will examine some of the ways in which Thomas Churchyard – this ‘typical’ Englishman – imagined ‘home’ during one of the most eventful eras of English history.