Poets,  Players, and Preachers Poets,  Players, and Preachers

Poets, Players, and Preachers

Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England

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Publisher Description

On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance.  The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day.

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. By analyzing the genres of poems, plays, and sermons produced between 1605 and 1688, the author argues that not only did the continuous reinterpretation of the conspiracy serve religious and political purposes but that such literary reinterpretations produced generic changes. 

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
14 July
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
752
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
SIZE
8.7
MB

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