Author

Publication

1999 - G. K. Hall & Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

43,500 words, Guess

Page Count

174 pages

Physical Format

Electronic resource

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads3419871
  • LibraryThing6226821

Classifications

  • DDC828/.209
  • LCCPR2209.B2 H27 1996

Description

A leading playwright and polemical writer of the English Reformation, John Bale was one of the most effective proponents of the Protestant cause in sixteenth-century England. He authored polemical prose, numerous plays, and religious history during a period of critical importance for both the development of English theater and Reformation theology. In John Bale, a comprehensive study of Bale's life and works, Happe brings together three areas of current scholarship - literary and theater criticism, theology and history, and bibliography - into one volume. Covering Bale's polemical writings, his literary history and bibliography, and his five extant plays, including his celebrated historical drama King Johan, Happe argues that Bale was as much a political writer as a religious one. Happe's comprehensive analysis of Bale's works reveals that Bale religious morality plays as well as his prose dealing with religious history and scriptural exegesis, were encoded subversive political statements intended to change public opinion.

Subjects

Topics

DatabaseReformationDramatic worksCriticism and interpretationReformation -- England -- DatabaseBale, John, -- 1495-1563 -- Dramatic works -- DatabaseBale, John, -- 1495-1563 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Database

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Series Statement

  • Twayne's world authors series online

Other Editions

  • John BaleElectronic resourceG. K. Hall & Co.1999

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