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- Title
The Limits of Clowning in the Age of Marprelate: The Anti-Martinist Tracts and 2 Henry VI.
- Authors
Melnikoff, Kirk
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the element of political discourse in the play "2 Henry VI." It explains how "Reformation" developed from a theological to a cultural connotation in poetic and theatrical works during the late 16th-century. The author reveals how a debate over the use of clowning as rhetoric between became William Shakespeare's influence for writing the Jack Cade sequence in "2 Henry VI." It offers a background of "the Marprelate controversy" during the reign of Elizabeth I.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; HENRY VI, Part II (Play : Shakespeare); CLOWNING; MARPRELATE controversy; ENGLISH Reformation
- Publication
Renaissance Papers, 2010, p35
- ISSN
0584-4207
- Publication type
Essay