Article: John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit.(Book review)

John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit. By JEANNE SHAMI. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 13) Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. ix+318 pp. 50[pounds sterling]; $85. ISBN 0-85991-789-4.

The author of this magnificent book, Jeanne Shami, shot to international scholarly fame with her discovery in December 1992 that the anonymously catalogued British Library MS Royal 17. B. XX was a rare contemporaneous scribal copy of John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot sermon. The real significance of this discovery was Shami's definitive attribution of the correcting hand to Donne himself. Shami makes clear in the book under review how much we lose in approaching ...

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