"A Mirror for Magistrates" and the Politics of the English Reformation (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)

by ScottLucas (Author)

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  2009

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  Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read as the historical verse tragedy collection A Mirror for Magistrates . This work shows that modern critics have misconstrued the purpose of the tragic verse narratives of the Mirror, approaching them as uncontroversial meditations on abstract political and philosophical doctrines.