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The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition

A Modernized and Annotated Edition

  • Paperback
  • 438 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

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For history enthusiasts and literature lovers alike

Makes the complex texts of Marprelate accessible

You will enjoy rich satire and historical insights

This modern edition brings the witty Martin Marprelate tracts to life for today's readers.

The Martin Marprelate tracts are the most famous pamphlets of the English Renaissance; to their contemporaries they were the most notorious. Printed in 1588 and 1589 on a secret press carted across the English countryside from one sympathetic household to another, the seven tracts attack the Church of England, particularly its bishops (hence the pseudonym, Mar-prelate), and advocate a Presbyterian system of church government. Scandalously witty, racy, and irreverent, the Marprelate tracts are the finest prose satires of their era. Their colloquial style and playfully self-dramatizing manner influenced the fiction and theatre of the Elizabethan Golden Age. This 2008 text was the first fully annotated edition of the tracts to appear in almost a century. A lightly modernized text makes Martin Marprelate's famous voice easily accessible, and a full introduction details the background, sources, production, authorship, and seventeenth-century afterlife of the tracts.
The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityThe Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition

  • Title

    The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition

  • Author

    Joseph L. Black

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    March 2011

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    438

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521188647

  • ISBN-10

    0521188644

  • Eden Code

    3970290

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