An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.

Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601

An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate. - 1 online resource : multiple file formats - Puritan discipline tracts. . - Puritan discipline tracts. .

The Marprelate controversy at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marprelate_Controversy Release date is 2021-05-28

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"An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate" attributed to Thomas Nashe is a pamphlet published in 1590. Part of England's fierce Marprelate Controversy, this work was secretly commissioned by church authorities to combat puritan attacks on the Anglican establishment. Nashe and other writers were enlisted to answer Martin Marprelate's satirical assaults using his own railing style. The pamphlet represents a charged moment when religious debate descended into street-level mockery and personal abuse, transforming theological argument into literary warfare. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



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