Radical Pastoral, 1381–1594

Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594 argues that the ostensibly revolutionary character of early Protestant literary culture was deeply indebted to medieval satirical writing. Indeed, the author shows that Protestant literature may be viewed as a remarkable crystallisation of the textual movements and polemical personae of a rich, combative tradition of medieval writing which is still at play on the London stage in the age of Marlowe and Shakespeare.