Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern EnglandThe image of the puritan as a dour and repressive character has been central to ways of reading sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history and literature. Kristen Poole's original study challenges this perception arguing that radical reformers were most often portrayed in literature of the period as deviant, licentious and transgressive. Through extensive analysis of early modern pamphlets, sermons, poetry and plays, the fictional puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnivalesque figure. By recovering this lost satirical image, Poole sheds new light on the social role played by anti-puritan rhetoric. |
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... ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1978 ) , 6. By permission of Oxford University Press . 81 133 7 Illustration from The True Emblem of Antichrist : Or , SCHISM Display'd ( 1651 ) . © The British Museum . 8 Title page of The Adamites Sermon ...
... ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1978 ) , 6. By permission of Oxford University Press . 81 133 7 Illustration from The True Emblem of Antichrist : Or , SCHISM Display'd ( 1651 ) . © The British Museum . 8 Title page of The Adamites Sermon ...
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... Oxford under the supervision of Nigel Smith , whose vast knowledge of seventeenth - century pamphlet literature helped me to navigate a daunting field of text , and whose timely suggestions pushed the dissertation to unexpected points ...
... Oxford under the supervision of Nigel Smith , whose vast knowledge of seventeenth - century pamphlet literature helped me to navigate a daunting field of text , and whose timely suggestions pushed the dissertation to unexpected points ...
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... ( Oxford , 1630 ) , and even in the title of John Geree's sympathetic The Character of an old English Puritane , or Non - Conformist ( 1646 ) . As early as the 1590s , when the term " puritan " was gaining common currency , authors began ...
... ( Oxford , 1630 ) , and even in the title of John Geree's sympathetic The Character of an old English Puritane , or Non - Conformist ( 1646 ) . As early as the 1590s , when the term " puritan " was gaining common currency , authors began ...
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Contents
The puritan in the alehouse Falstaff and the drama of Martin Marprelate | 16 |
Eating disorder feasting fasting and the puritan bellygod at Bartholomew Fair | 45 |
Lewd conversations the perversions of the Family of Love | 74 |
Dissecting sectarianism swarms forms and Thomas Edwardss Gangrena | 104 |
The descent of dissent monstrous genealogies and Miltons antiprelatical tracts | 124 |
Not so much as jig leaves Adamites naked Quakers linguistic perfection and Paradise Lost | 147 |
the fortunes of Hudibras | 182 |
Notes | 187 |
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