Introduction; Textual introduction; The Martin Marprelate Tracts: 1. The Epistle; 2. The Epitome; 3. Certain Mineral and Metaphysical Schoolpoints; 4. Hay any Work For Cooper; 5. Theses Martinianae (by 'Martin Junior'); 6. The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior (by'Martin Senior'); 7. The Protestation of Martin Marprelate.
A fully annotated modern edition of the most famous satires of the English Renaissance.
Joseph Black is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Review of the hardback: 'Joseph Black has performed a great service
for students of English religion, history, and literature in
compiling such an authoritative presentation of the Marprelate
pamphlets. … Those coming to Black's edition will also have the
pleasure of enjoying in their full display of wit some of the
liveliest and most humorous pieces of writing of the early modern
period.' Reformation
Review of the hardback: '… splendid new edition - the first since
William Pierce's of 1911 … The sheer vituperativeness, polemical
energy, and bold wit, with which he [the author] voiced these
criticisms were unprecedented.' English Studies
Review of the hardback: 'This splendid new edition of the
Marprelate tracts will go a long way in making accessible a
fascinating and provocative period of ecclesiastical history.
Black's sensitive and authoritative editing should allow the voice
of Martin Marprelate to be heard loud and clear by a new generation
of readers.' Andrew V. Cinnamond, Wandsworth Parish, London
'This edition deserves to grace the shelves of any serious student
of the English Reformation, however one understands that
controversial term. Beyond that, though, as Black's notes make
clear, it represents an important contribution to our understanding
of Elizabethan literary history: for it reinstates the political
pamphlet literature of late sixteenth-century England in an
honourable tradition that ultimately leads down via Swift and
Hazlitt to Orwell. As such, Black's edition is now 'base camp', as
it were, both for historians and literary scholars of the Tracts.'
Cahiers Élisabéthains
'Joseph Black is to be congratulated for the meticulous care with
which he has prepared it, and Cambridge University Press for having
the imagination to make these ephemeral but vital works available
in a handsome volume.' English
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