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Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England

Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521641047
ISBN13: 9780521641043
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 15 2000
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
The 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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