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Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 /

The hardline, uncompromising theology preached by the English Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries had disturbing effects on the literature of the period. This study, originally published in 1983,€assesses the importance of the prevailing religious climate to the work of several major writers, both...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sinfield, Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge revivals.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical perspectives
  • Protestantism: a belief of contradictories
  • Puritan humanists: Sidney, Spenser, Milton
  • Who bids abstain? Donne, Sidney, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare
  • Heroic assertion: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Seneca, Machiavelli, Ford, Chapman, Webster
  • Providence and tragedy: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Tourneur, Kyd, Webster
  • The Reformation and secular society: Bacon, Perkins, Hobbes, Chillingworth, Milton.