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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... ecclesiastical and civil destruction . In the same year as Benbrigge's sermon , the presbyterian Thomas Edwards chides Parliament for their failure to quell the disruptive force of schism : You have , most Noble Senatours , done ...
... ecclesiastical and civil destruction . In the same year as Benbrigge's sermon , the presbyterian Thomas Edwards chides Parliament for their failure to quell the disruptive force of schism : You have , most Noble Senatours , done ...
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... ecclesiastical struggle was seemingly being undermined by a rabble of misguided zealots . Where Edwards longs to see a gloriously unified national church , he finds division and monstrosity.3 Sixteenth- and seventeenth - century ...
... ecclesiastical struggle was seemingly being undermined by a rabble of misguided zealots . Where Edwards longs to see a gloriously unified national church , he finds division and monstrosity.3 Sixteenth- and seventeenth - century ...
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... ecclesiastical community . Contemporaries most often employed the term as a derisive synonym for " schismatic . " Oliver Ormerod , in his pamphlet The Picture of a Puritane ( 1605 ) , defines " Puritanes " as " a Schismaticall and ...
... ecclesiastical community . Contemporaries most often employed the term as a derisive synonym for " schismatic . " Oliver Ormerod , in his pamphlet The Picture of a Puritane ( 1605 ) , defines " Puritanes " as " a Schismaticall and ...
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... ecclesiastical agendas , and spiritual desires ; “ puritan ” has been stretched and contracted to serve as a useful label for categorizing various individuals and ideologies . By contrast , the aim of many early modern authors was to ...
... ecclesiastical agendas , and spiritual desires ; “ puritan ” has been stretched and contracted to serve as a useful label for categorizing various individuals and ideologies . By contrast , the aim of many early modern authors was to ...
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... ecclesiastical structures in flux . Throughout early modern discourse , from Coriolanus to Leviathan , ideals of civil order were expressed through the common and even hackneyed trope of the body , with the monarch as the acknowledged ...
... ecclesiastical structures in flux . Throughout early modern discourse , from Coriolanus to Leviathan , ideals of civil order were expressed through the common and even hackneyed trope of the body , with the monarch as the acknowledged ...
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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