MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY

märˈprĕlˌĭt, 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 church replied in kind, but silenced the pamphleteer only after a reaction against him by the more conservative Puritans and after the use of police powers by Whitgift. A flood of both Martinist and anti-Martinist literature followed, to which Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, and Richard Harvey are supposed to have contributed. The true identity of Martin Marprelate has never been determined, but John Penry may have been the chief author.

See The Marprelate Tracts (ed. by W. Pierce, 1911, repr. 1967); E. Arber, An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1558–1590 (1895, repr. 1967); D. J. McGinn, John Penry and the Marprelate Controversy (1966).

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Science and Religion in Elizabethan England
Book by Paul H. Kocher; Huntington Library, 1953
Subjects: Religion And Science--History Of Controversy--England
...intend the Bible as a revelation of scientific truths but entrusts their discovery to human sense and reason. The Copernican controversy in the sixteenth century was merely another episode, though the most crucial of all, in the further crystallization of...
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne - Vol. 3
Book by Adolphus William Ward; MacMillan & Co., 1899
Subjects: English Drama--History And Criticism
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Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age: A Survey of Printed Sources
Book by Peter Milward; University of Nebraska Press, 1977
Subjects: England--Church History--16th Century--Bibliography, Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Bibliography, Religious Disputations--England--Bibliography
...c The Marprelate controversy 86...thoroughly investigated. The Marprelate controversy is, of course, particularly...became a direct cause of the Marprelate controversy, to which it therefore belongs...
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English Literature during the Lifetime of Shakespeare
Book by Felix E. Schelling; Henry Holt, 1927
Subjects: English Literature--Early Modern (To 1700)--History And Criticism
...pamphlet war , 111 .-- The Marprelate controversy , 113 .-- The part of Lyly...and Bacon first emerge from controversy into authorship in the nineties...the larger issues of this controversy, and, recognizing the beauties...
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The Drama of Dissent: The Radical Poetics of Nonconformity, 1380-1590
Book by Ritchie D. Kendall; University of North Carolina Press, 1986
Subjects: Dissenters, Religious--England--Intellectual Life, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, English Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism, English Literature--Protestant Authors--History And Criticism, English Literature--Puritan Authors--History And Criticism, Lollards--Intellectual Life, Protestantism And Literature, Puritan Movements In Literature, Puritans--England--Intellectual Life, Radicalism In Literature
...5. Martin Marprelate: Syllogistic Laughter...In the last decade that controversy has increasingly centered...Thomas Cartwright and Martin Marprelate as representative voices...reformers. As for Martin Marprelate, twentieth-century critics...
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Puritanism in Comic History: Exposing Royalty in the Henry Plays
Journal article by Grace Tiffany; Shakespeare Studies, 1998
Subjects: Puritans--History, Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theater and society--History
...become characteristic of the Marprelate controversy, however, the anti-Marprelate...become associated, via the Marprelate controversy, with Puritan rhetoric...however, due solely to the Marprelate controversy. The showmanship of popular...
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Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Journal article by Katherine Romack; CLIO, Vol. 34, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Book)--Book reviews
...focusing especially on the Marprelate controversy of the 1580s, and closes...the pamphlet form in the Marprelate controversy of the 1580s and an analysis...tumultuous century following the Marprelate controversy. In his masterful compilation...
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Playing Companies and the Drama of the 1580s: A New Direction for Elizabethan Theatre History?
Journal article by Paul Whitfield White; Shakespeare Studies, 2000
Subjects: English drama--History, Literary historians--Research, Shakespeare, William--Research, Theater--History
...embroiled in the Martin Marprelate controversy, staging plays in defense...seasons anyway, due to the Marprelate controversy of 1588-90. Ironically...Lylys involvement with the Marprelate controversy in the late 1580s when...
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"Banish All the Wor(l)d": Falstaff's Iconoclastic Threat to Kingship in I Henry IV
Journal article by Ellen M. Caldwell; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 59, 2007
Subjects: 1 Henry IV (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Fraud--Portrayals, Playwrights--Works, Shakespeare, William--Works
...Ed. The Oldcastle Controversy. New York: St. Martins...Kristen. "Falstaff, Marprelate, and the Staging...See The Oldcastle Controversy, ed. Peter Corbin...Oldcastle and the Marprelate controversy, concluding, "this...
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The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England
Journal article by Evelyn B. Tribble; Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England (Book)--Book reviews
...Chapter 5 extends this discussion into Puritan controversies, particularly the infamous Martin Marprelate controversy. The Marprelate controversy is a special case because of sharply delineated voice of the pseudonymous Martin. As North argues...
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Marprelate Controversy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY mar prel it, a 16th-century...Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1558 1590 (1895, repr. 1967); D. J. McGinn, John Penry and the Marprelate Controversy (1966...
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Penry, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...British Puritan author, an instigator of the Marprelate controversy , b. Wales, grad. Cambridge and Oxford. While...Peel, 1944); D. J. McGinn, John Penry and the Marprelate Controversy (1966). ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Nashe, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...his natural and vigorous style was fully developed. His ardent anti-Puritanism involved him in the Martin Marprelate controversy , resulting in a scurrilous pamphlet battle with Richard and Gabriel Harvey in which Nashe produced some of...
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Whitgift, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Elizabeth. His policy was severe toward the Puritans, and he was attacked in some of the tracts published in the Marprelate controversy . See his works, ed. by J. Ayre (3 vol., 1851 53); biography by H. J. Clayton (1911); studies by P. M. Dawley...
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Harvey, Gabriel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Letters (1592), a scurrilous post-mortem attack on Robert Greene , involved Harvey in the heated Martin Marprelate controversy , which was terminated in 1599 by the intervention of the government. Much of Harveys Martinist writings contained...


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