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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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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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Lander's first two chapters look at two highly influential, yet markedly different, moments of late sixteenth-century publications of religious material: Foxe's Acts and Monuments (the Book of Martyrs) and the Marprelate Controversy.

Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early ... by Prendergast, Maria Teresa Micaela / Renaissance Quarterly

42) The proposition that it was their involvement in the Martin Marprelate controversy that led to the suppression of the troupe (a view that predates Hunter's work and is still generally accepted today) (43) can be supported by contemporary evidence of a variety of kinds.

The victim of fashion? Rereading the biography of John Lyly by Scragg, Leah / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

The Marprelate controversy is a special case because of sharply delineated voice of the pseudonymous Martin.

The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart ... by Tribble, Evelyn B. / Shakespeare Studies