Tudor Polemical Protestant Dialogues

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Antoinina Bevan Zlatar (University of Zurich)

Ed. by Neil Forsyth, Université de Lausanne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Domains

Literature Topic
Protestants

Dates

Date of occurrence c.1550- c.1620

Places

England (Involved)

Genres and Modes

Religion and Spirituality (any)
- Religious writing

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Arthur Dent’s

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(1601) was a seventeenth-century bestseller. Bunyan famously cited it as one of two works which “did beget within me some desire to religion” (

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). The genre that Dent chose for his publication was the polemical dialogue. This was a genre that had a distinct literary pedigree, stretching back to the beginning of England’s Reformations, and one of relevance to the history of the development of a proto public sphere of debate in England.

The dialogue, brilliantly deployed by Plato, Cicero and Lucian, and exploited by theologians throughout the Middle Ages, was reinvigorated by continental Renaissance humanists and put into the vernacular. Following this continental lead, Tudor presses produced hundreds of dialogues

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Citation: Bevan Zlatar, Antoinina . "Tudor Polemical Protestant Dialogues". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 November 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19349, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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