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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... in Early Modern England Kristen Poole. Hope Charitie Kristen Poole Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England Goodwo The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as. Front Cover.
... in Early Modern England Kristen Poole. Hope Charitie Kristen Poole Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England Goodwo The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as. Front Cover.
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... puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnival- esque figure ; puritans are extensively depicted as gluttonous , sexually promiscuous , monstrously procreating , and even as worshipping naked . By recovering this lost alternative satirical ...
... puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnival- esque figure ; puritans are extensively depicted as gluttonous , sexually promiscuous , monstrously procreating , and even as worshipping naked . By recovering this lost alternative satirical ...
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... Puritans , having taken up in Pulpits and Presses , almost as vile and scurrilous a licence of fiction and detraction , as is usual in Play - houses , Taverns , and Bordelloes . Henry Parker , A Discourse Concerning Puritans . A ...
... Puritans , having taken up in Pulpits and Presses , almost as vile and scurrilous a licence of fiction and detraction , as is usual in Play - houses , Taverns , and Bordelloes . Henry Parker , A Discourse Concerning Puritans . A ...
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... puritan in the alehouse : Falstaff and the drama of Martin Marprelate 16 2 Eating disorder : feasting , fasting , and the puritan bellygod at Bartholomew Fair 45 3 Lewd conversations : the perversions of the Family of Love 74 4 ...
... puritan in the alehouse : Falstaff and the drama of Martin Marprelate 16 2 Eating disorder : feasting , fasting , and the puritan bellygod at Bartholomew Fair 45 3 Lewd conversations : the perversions of the Family of Love 74 4 ...
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... puritan . " As contemporaries recognized , the term " puritan " was used as “ an Epithite of reproach " and a " scornefull Nick - name . " While modern historians have tended to apply " puritan " to those advocating reform from within ...
... puritan . " As contemporaries recognized , the term " puritan " was used as “ an Epithite of reproach " and a " scornefull Nick - name . " While modern historians have tended to apply " puritan " to those advocating reform from within ...
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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