Authors:Professor Peter Lake, Peter Lake,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: post, reformation, england, players, papists, christ`s, lewd, protestants, anti
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300088841
ISBN-13: 9780300088847

Short, cheap pamphlets with catchy titles and crude woodcuts lured readers in early modern England. The pamphlets described notorious murders and the sometimes providential means by which the culprit was captured and condemned to the scaffold. In this extraordinary book, Peter Lake examines how various groups-protestant, puritan, and catholic, the press, and the popular stage-sought to enlist these pamphlets for their own ideological and commercial purposes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The book explores print shops, book stalls, and theaters, then proceeds to the pulpits,