The Witness of Times

by Keller, Katherine Z.; Schiffhorst, Gerald J.

• ISBN13: 9780820702520
• ISBN10: 0820702528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: Duquesne Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Sacred Literature and Profane Religion: The Modernity of Herbert of Cherbury	p. 14
Propaganda and the Pulpit: Robert Cecil, William Barlow and the Essex and Gunpowder Plots	p. 34
The Triumph of London: Lord Mayor's Day Pageants and the Rise of the City	p. 53
Bringing Forth Wonders: Temporal and Divine Power in The Tempest	p. 69
The Politics of Disguise: Drama and Political Theory in the Early Seventeenth Century	p. 90
Angels, Alchemists and Exchange: Commercial Ideology in Court and City Comedy, 1596-1610	p. 121
Imagination and Ideology in Macbeth	p. 148
The Uses of Deception: From Cromwell to Milton	p. 174
Lady Falkland's Reentry into Writing: Anglo-Catholic Consensual Discourse and her Edward II as Historical Fiction	p. 201
"This Giant Has Wounded Me as Well as Thee": Reading Bunyan's Violence and/as Authority	p. 218
Imagining New Worlds: Milton, Galileo and the "Good Old Cause"	p. 238
Notes	p. 261
Index	p. 297
About the Contributors	p. 307
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