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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) : 9 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442649378
  • 9781442620056
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/358 23
LOC classification:
  • PR438.P65 J36 2016eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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