Poets, Players, and Preachers
Subtitle: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781442649378
Subjects: Gunpowder plot, 1605; English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700; Literature and history; Crime in literature
Description: "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."--