Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Publication Title
The Sixteenth century journal
Volume
35
Issue
1
First Page
43
Last Page
63
ISSN
0361-0160
DOI
10.2307/20476837
Publisher
KIRKSVILLE: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers
Keywords
1500-1599, Anabaptist, Catholicism, Nash Thomas
Abstract
This article explores links between the anti-Marprelate polemics and Thomas Nashe's satire of Puritans and Catholics in "The Unfortunate Traveller." In public confrontations with the late Elizabethan church, activist minority religions were co-opting powerful rhetorics of holiness. Analysis is made of episodes in "The Unfortunate Traveller" where Nashe deconstructs Puritan and Catholic appropriations of the rhetoric of martyrdom and seeks to educate the reader in interpreting or seeing through what he believes are pretended forms of holiness. Making readers aware of false appropriations and performances of holiness involves educating them in the narrative and dramatic conventions that are used to manipulate their opinions and emotions.
Rights
copyright Jennifer L. Anderson
Recommended Citation
Andersen, Jennifer, "Anti-Puritanism, Anti-Popery, and Gallows Rhetoric in Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller"" (2004). English Faculty Publications. 3.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/english-publications/3
