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John Bale was an extraordinarily forceful and prolific Protestant propagandist during the early stages of the Reformation in England. His emergence as a Protestant polemicist represented a complete tu...
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In this excerpt Collier examines Bale's seminal use of historical figures and events in his plays and the bridge his works created between medieval theater and modern drama.
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In the following essay, Adams acknowledges King Johan's unique attributes while refuting the theory that the play greatly influenced later works.
Most students of the Elizabethan drama agree th...
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In this essay, Fairfield examines The vocacyon of Johan Bale as a unique example of an early autobiographical work.
Sixteenth-century Englishmen were not frequently given to self-scrutiny—at le...
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In the following excerpts, Mattsson explores Bale's use of the medieval King John to further the cause of the burgeoning Protestant Reformation by dissecting King Johan into such subject areas ...
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In the following essay, Pineas argues that Bale was “completely uninterested in the internal and overall consistency of his polemics or in historical or chronological accuracy,” but that...
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Critical Essay by Peter Happé and John N. King
Introduction to The Vocacyon of Johan Bale, edited by Peter Happé and John N. King, Renaissance English Text Society, 1990, pp. 9-13.
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Critical Essay by Kurt Tetzeli Von Rosador
“The Sacrilizing Sign: Religion and Magic in Bale, Greene, and the Early Shakespeare,” in The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 23, 1993, pp. 3...
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In the following essay, McEachern focuses on Bale's use of the image of the Whore of Babylon in The Image of Both Churches as a symbol of the corruption and duplicity of the Catholic Church.
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Critical Essay by Jacqueline A. Vanhoutte
“Engendering England: The Restructuring of Allegiance in the Writings of Richard Morison and John Bale,” in Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. XX...
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John Bale
Critical Essay by J. Payne Collier
