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The Marprelate Controversy was a war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, EHandler: no quick summary.
Martin marprelate was the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the marprelate tracts....
Maskell's Martin Marprelate Controversy (1845) is of little service.
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 Martin Marprelate Controversy.
The Martin Marprelate controversy was an Elizabethan religious and literary argument, which stemmed from the strict censorship policies enforced by Archbishop Whitgift.
In response, numerous Puritan pamphlets criticizing Whitgift, the bishops, and the Church of England, appeared under the pseudonym Martin Marprelate (1588-1589).
The identity of Martin Marprelate was never established conclusively, though John Penry and John Udall were arrested.
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 MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY - LoveToKnow Article on MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Martins tracts are characterized by violent and personal invective against the Anglican dignitaries, by the assumption that the writer had numerous and powerful adherents and was able to enforce his demands for reform, and by a plain and homely style combined with pungent wit.
The pamphlets were printed at a secret press established by John Penry, a Welsh puritan, with the help of the printer Robert Waldegrave, about midsummer 1588, for the issue of puritan literature forbidden by the authorities.
It is in answer to A Defence of the Government established in the Church of Englande, by Dr. John Bridges, dean of Salisbury, itself a reply to earlier puritan works, and besides attacking the episcopal office in general assails certain prelates with much personal abuse.
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 Marprelate controversy on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY [Marprelate controversy], a 16th-century English religious argument.
Martin Marprelate was the pseudonym under which appeared several Puritan pamphlets (1588-89) satirizing the authoritarianism of the Church of England under Archbishop John Whitgift.
The true identity of Martin Marprelate has never been determined, but John Penry may have been the chief author.
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 MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY - Online Information article about MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
appeal to the same class of readers as the Marprelate pamphlets, and produced little effect.
SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital.
Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy (188o), which, however, gives no connected See also:
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 Marprelate controversy
Martin Marprelate was the pseudonym under which appeared several Puritan pamphlets (1588–89) satirizing the authoritarianism of the Church of England under Archbishop John Whitgift.
An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1558–1590
John Penry - Penry, John, 1559–93, British Puritan author, an instigator of the Marprelate controversy, b.
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The book review niche now includes reviews of Irvin Matus' Shakespeare, IN FACT and Elizabeth Appleton's An Anatomy of the Marprelate Controversy.
Clearly the revelation of Foster's recantation came as a shock to those who, like Foster himself at one time, had hoped that "Funeral Elegy" could supply a silver bullet to slay the Oxfordian monster.
An irate 6-22 letter from Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt, who is working on a much-ballyhooed biography of the Stratford man, condemned The Times for asserting a connection between the Elegy controversy and "Gary Livicari"> the authorship question, and for presuming that the Oxfordians are not crackpots.
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