{"product_id":"poets-players-and-preachers-9781442649378","title":"Poets Players and Preachers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Masterful, nuanced, and at times almost overwhelming treatment of Gunpowder Plot.’ -- Leah Knight * Renaissance and Reformation vol 40:04:2017 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Poets, Players and Preachers is an ambitious book, as rewarding as it is challenging, covering a wide range of genres stretching across a hundred years of history and drawing on a wide range of scholarship and theory.\" -- Brent Nelson * Seventeenth Century News *\u003cbr\u003e\"[This book] is a fine example of the iterative relationship between literary and historical inquiry, as well as a complex account of how the memory of a single (and ultimately failed) historical event can come to serve widely divergent ends.\" -- Todd Butler * Seventeenth Century News *\u003cbr\u003e\"Poets, Players and Preachers offers a captivating study of the literary repercussions of the Gunpowder Plot. James makes it clear that this is very much a historicist approach to literary studies and demonstrates the importance and advantages that a greater interdisciplinary relationship between literary and historical studies can bring to enrich our understanding of intention, transmission, and reception of early modern literature.\" -- Tatyana Zhukova, University of Nottingham * The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.Introduction: Writing the Gunpowder Plot     2.\"like Sampson's foxes\": Creating a Jacobean Myth of Deliverance     3.\"And no religion beinds men to be traitors\": The Plot on Stage     4.\"In marble records fit to be inrold\": Epic Monuments for a Protestant Nation     5\"fit audience find, though few\": Militant Protestants and Forgotten Monuments     6.\"For God and the King\": Preaching on the Plot Anniversary     7.Conclusion: Echoes and Reverberations     Works Cited","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408372244823,"sku":"9781442649378","price":57.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442649378.jpg?v=1730502657","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poets-players-and-preachers-9781442649378","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}