Edmund Campion (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Waugh
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Biographical
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Oxford and London, England; Rome, Italy; and Prague
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Death or dying, Faith, London, Sermons, Sixteenth century, Catholics or Catholic Church, Martyrs or martyrdom, Students or student life, Anglo-Saxons
- Locales: London, England, Rome, Italy, Oxford, England, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Characters Discussed
Edmund Campion, an Englishman born in 1540 in London. He studied at Oxford University, where he became a very learned and respected professor of Latin and Greek. In 1566, he receives the honor of being asked to deliver a speech welcoming Queen Elizabeth I to Oxford. Queen Elizabeth I and her advisers believe that Campion will have a distinguished career as a leading clergyman in the Church of England because of his intelligence and persuasiveness as an orator. He surprises his colleagues at Oxford and disappoints the queen by his decision to leave England...
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