Examines the use by writers of English versions of the Bible in sixteenth-century England.

English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotiona

This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation a

The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature