Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier Cambridge University Press, 1996 M02 29 - 280 pages This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises, political treatises and histories. It breaks down normal distinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restoration periods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled) post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief, practice, and authority. |
Contents
Sir John Oldcastle as symbol of Reformation | 6 |
Spensers savage | 27 |
Shakespeare | 46 |
Kneeling and the body politic | 70 |
Donne and the politics of devotion | 93 |
Catholic Anglican or puritan? Edward Sackville fourth | 115 |
Crucifixion or apocalypse? Refiguring the Eikon Basilike | 138 |
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