Poets, Players, and Preachers : Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England / Anne James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Anne, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gunpowder Plot, 1605--Early works to 1800.

Gunpowder Plot, 1605.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Political aspects.

Conspiracy in literature.

Genre:

Early works.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction: Writing the Gunpowder Plot

2. "like Sampsons Foxes": Creating a Jacobean Myth of Deliverance

3. "And no religion binds men to be traitors": The Plot on Stage

4. "In marble records fit to be inrold": Epic Monuments for a Protestant Nation

5. "fit audience find, though few": Militant Protestants and Wandering Ways

6. "For God and the King": Preaching on the Plot Anniversary

Conclusion: Echoes and Reverberations

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9781442620070

1442620072

9781442620056

1442620056

OCLC:

979756665