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Article: Christian against Christian in 16th-century England: writers draw surprising parallels with events today.(God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot; A Fifth of November)(Book Review)
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- September 16, 2005
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GOD'S SECRET AGENTS: QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FORBIDDEN PRIESTS AND THE HATCHING OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
By Alice Hogge HarperCollins Publishers, $27.95, 445 pages
A FIFTH OF NOVEMBER By Paul West New Directions, $75.95, 362pages
Clergy sneak into a country after having been trained to engage in subversive activities that threaten the foundations of the state. Some of the people they influence join in antigovernment plots, including a cabal designed to kill the head of state and top officials of the government and the religious establishment. Government officials, growhag increasingly paranoid, invade homes and arrest and torture suspects. Participation ...