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Article: Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England.
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- Church History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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By Kristen Poole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 272 pp. $59.95 cloth.
In the words of the author, this book seeks to achieve two ends. The first is to correct lingering misconceptions about literary references to puritanism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The second is to demonstrate that fictional representations of religious dissent sought to represent the "social and discursive repercussions of radical religious nonconformity" (14). In spite of the title, therefore, this book is not about nonconformity or nonconformists. It is, in Poole's words, "a history of representation rather than social history" (14). More specifically, ...