Poets, Players, and Preachers

Anne James is an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Regina.

‘Masterful, nuanced, and at times almost overwhelming treatment of Gunpowder Plot.’- Leah Knight (Renaissance and Reformation vol 40:04:2017) "Poets, Players and Preachers is an ambitious book, as rewarding as it is challenging, covering a wide range of genres stretching across a hundred years of history and drawing on a wide range of scholarship and theory."- Brent Nelson (Seventeenth Century News) "[This book] is a fine example of the iterative relationship between literary and historical inquiry, as well as a complex account of how the memory of a single (and ultimately failed) historical event can come to serve widely divergent ends."- Todd Butler (Seventeenth Century News) "Poets, Players and Preachers offers a captivating study of the literary repercussions of the Gunpowder Plot. James makes it clear that this is very much a historicist approach to literary studies and demonstrates the importance and advantages that a greater interdisciplinary relationship between literary and historical studies can bring to enrich our understanding of intention, transmission, and reception of early modern literature."- Tatyana Zhukova, University of Nottingham (The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018)

• 1.Introduction: Writing the Gunpowder Plot 2."like Sampson’s foxes": Creating a Jacobean Myth of Deliverance 3."And no religion beinds men to be traitors": The Plot on Stage 4."In marble records fit to be inrold": Epic Monuments for a Protestant Nation 5"fit audience find, though few": Militant Protestants and Forgotten Monuments 6."For God and the King": Preaching on the Plot Anniversary 7.Conclusion: Echoes and Reverberations Works Cited