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Article: John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition.(Review) (book reviews)
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- September 22, 1999
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SHAMI, Jeanne. John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A Parallel-Text Edition. Transcribed and edited and with critical commentary by Jeanne Shami. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1996. xii. 200 pp. $45.00 (Duquesne Studies: Language and Literature Series).
In a recent historical account of the Gunpowder Plot, Antonia Fraser portrays the 1605 event as an enduring part of English communal memory that enjoys remarkable staying power while adapting in extraordinary ways to changing contemporary politics. Describing a 1994 celebration of Bonfire Night, she observes that the effigies of Guy Fawkes as well as Margaret Thatcher and John Major were carried in procession ...