Witches and Jesuits (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Garry Wills
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Politics, Literature, England or English people, Theater, Dramatic criticism, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Propaganda, Gunpowder
Garry Wills is well known for his studies of U.S. history, which include Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970), Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home (1988), and, most notably, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1993), an analysis of the Gettysburg Address that received the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Turning from the history of the United States to that of early modern England, Wills explores connections between Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605, a group of papists, who were believed to be directed by Jesuits who...
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