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CATHOLICISM AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS EARLY MODERN LITERATURE IN HISTORY General Editor: Cedric C. Brown Professor of English and Head of Department, University of Reading Within the period 1520-1740 this series discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share an historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own and successive cultures. Titles include: Anna R. Beer SIR WALTER RALEGH AND HIS READERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: Speaking to the People Cedric C. Brown and Arthur F. Marotti (editors) TEXTS AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND John Dolan POETIC OCCASION FROM MILTON TO WORDSWORTH Pauline Kiernan STAGING SHAKESPEARE AT THE NEW GLOBE Ronald Knowles (editor) SHAKESPEARE AND CARNIVAL: After Bakhtin James Loxley ROYALISM AND POETRY IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS: The Drawn Sword Arthur F. Marotti (editor) CATHOLICISM AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS Mark Thornton Burnett MASTERS AND SERVANTS IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA AND CULTURE: Authority and Obedience The series Early Modern Literature in History is published in association with the Renaissance Texts Research Centre at the University of Reading. Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts Edited by Arthur E Marotti flfl First published in Great Britain 1999 by fiA MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-333-73218-9 First published in the United States of America 1999 by fiA ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 0-312-21871-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in early modern English texts / edited by Arthur F. Marotti p. cm. — (Early modern literature in history) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-312-21871-0 (cloth) 1. English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism. 2. Christian literature, English—Catholic authors- -History and criticism. 3. English literature—Protestant authors- -History and criticism. 4. English literature—Catholic authors- -History and criticism. 5. Christianity and literature—England- -History—17th century. 6. Christianity and literature—England- -History—16th century. 7. Anti-Catholicism—England—History. 8. Catholic Church—England—History. 9. Anti-Catholicism in literature. 10. Catholic Church—In literature. I. Marotti, Arthur F., 1940- . II. Series. PR428.C3C38 1999 820.938282—dc21 98-45552 CIP Selection and editorial matter © Arthur F. Marotti 1999 Text © Macmillan Press Ltd 1999 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire With love for my son Bill, whose academic interests embrace two hemispheres Contents List of Figures ix Notes on the Contributors xi Preface xiii Acknowledgements xix 1. Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England: Recusant Women, Jesuits and Ideological Fantasies Arthur F. Marotti 1 2. Robert Persons and the Writer's Mission Ronald Corthell 35 3. Parasitic Geographies: Manifesting Catholic Identity in Early Modern England Julian Yates 63 4. A Qualified Intolerance: the Limits and Ambiguities of Early Stuart Anti-Catholicism Anthony Milton 85 5. 'Out of her Ashes May a Second Phoenix Rise': James I and the Legacy of Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism John Watkins 116 6. 'What's in a Name?' A Papist's Perception of Puritanism and Conformity in the Early Seventeenth Century Michael Questier and Simon Healy 137 7. Multiple Conversion and the Menippean Self: the Case of Richard Carpenter Alison Shell 154 8. Milton's Paradise of Fools: Ecclesiastical Satire in Paradise Lost John N. King 198 vn Vlll Contents 9. 'The Wretched Subject the Whole Town Talks of: Representing Elizabeth Cellier (London, 1680) Frances E. Dolan 218 Index 259 List of Figures Figure 3.1 Pedigree of the Fitzherberts. Reproduced by permission of the Public Record Office 73 Figure 7.1 The Anabaptist washt and washt, and shrunk in the washing (1653). Reproduced by permission of the British Library 166 Figure 7.2 Frontispiece, Richard Carpenter, Experience, historic and divinitie (1641). Reproduced by permission of the British Library 177 Figure 7.3 Illustration from The Anabaptist washt and washt (1653). Reproduced by permission of the British Library 178 Figure 7.4 Richard Carpenter, The Jesuit and the monk (1656). Reproduced by permission of the British Library 182 Figure 8.1 A Discovery of the Jesuits' Trumpery, Newly Packed Out of England (1641). Reproduced by permission of the British Library 204 Figure 8.2 Wenceslaus Hollar, Time Carrying the Pope from England to Rome (c. 1641). Reproduced by permission of the British Museum 205 Figure 9.1 Cellier as author. Queen of spades from playing cards depicting 'The Meal Tub Plot'. Reproduced by permission of the Beinecke Library, Yale University 226 Figure 9.2 Cellier as the pillory. From The Popish Damnable Plot Against Our Religion and Liberties (1681). Reproduced by permission of the Beinecke Library, Yale University 227 Figure 9.3 Cellier 'disgracing' the pillory. Queen of Diamonds from playing cards depicting 'The Meal Tub Plot'. Reproduced by permission of the Beinecke Library, Yale University 226 IX

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Here literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, political and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. We are invited to re-examine the ideological biases of an era in which English Protestant identity emerged in the