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Marprelate controversy
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Marprelate controversy (mär`prĕl'ĭt), a 16th-century English religious argument. Martin Marprelate was the pseudonym under which appeared several Puritan pamphlets (1588–89) satirizing the authoritarianism of the Church of England under Archbishop John Whitgift. The church replied in kind, but silenced the pamphleteer only after a reaction against him by the more conservative Puritans and after the use of police powers by Whitgift. A flood of both Martinist and anti-Martinist literature followed, to which Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, and Richard Harvey are supposed to have contributed. The true identity of Martin Marprelate has never been determined, but John Penry Penry, John, 1559–93, British Puritan author, an instigator of the Marprelate controversy , b. Wales, grad. Cambridge and Oxford. While at college he became an ardent Puritan.
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Bibliography

See The Marprelate Tracts (ed. by W. Pierce, 1911, repr. 1967); E. Arber, An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1558–1590 (1895, repr. 1967); D. J. McGinn, John Penry and the Marprelate Controversy (1966).



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Martin Marprelate was the pseudonym under which appeared several Puritan pamphlets (1588–89) satirizing the authoritarianism of the Church of England under Archbishop John Whitgift.
There are also some weaknesses, at least from the historical end: while Targoff is nuanced in her reading of the sources, there is less subtlety in the way she tends to gather together individuals -- Richard Hooker and John Whitgift; the Marprelate authors and everyone else deemed "puritan" -- who would have actually chafed at the contact.
Most of her subjects are far more weighty: John Stubbs's The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf, the Marprelate Tracts; Catholic propaganda.
 
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