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Poets, players, and preachers : remembering the Gunpowder Plot in seventeenth-century England / Anne James.

  • Accession number

    83428842

  • Class

    93.002/JAM

  • ISBN

    9781442649378

  • Physical description

    412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents: Introduction : writing the gunpowder plot -- "like Sampson's foxes" : creating a Jacobean myth of deliverance -- "And no religion binds men to be traitors" : the plot on stage -- "In marble records fit to be inrold" : epic monuments for a Protestant nation -- "fit audience find, though few" : militant Protestants and wandering ways -- "For God and the king" : preaching on the plot anniversary -- Conclusion: echoes and reverberations.