Edward Arber (essay date 1879)
SOURCE: Arber, Edward. “The Origin of This Controversy.” In An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1588-1590, edited by Edward Arber, pp. 55-75. London: English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works, 1879.
[In the following essay, Arber reprints a representative portion of the writings of John Penry, as well as some of the Marprelate texts, making a stylistic argument for Penry's direction of the controversial works.]
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So far as it can be traced to any precise words or acts,...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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