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- Title
Disputing Good Bishop's English: Martin Marprelate and the Voice of Menippean Opposition.
- Authors
Navitsky, Joseph
- Abstract
This essay describes the undocumented Menippean influence in the Marprelate tracts in an effort to refine prevailing critical orthodoxies about the work. Martin Marprelate is the pseudonym of a syndicate of writers that called for the replacement of England's episcopacy with a decentralized ecclesiology based on local church discipline. The two key features of Menippean discourse are the confrontational dialogue and scandal scene. The seamless integration of written and oral utterance is one of the most peculiar aspects of Marprelate's presentation of dialogic exchange.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; MARPRELATE controversy; CHURCH of England; PURITANS; TRACTS; CHAPBOOKS; EPISCOPACY
- Publication
Texas Studies in Literature & Language, 2008, Vol 50, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
0040-4691
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/tsl.0.0002