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Puritan Revolution

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Puritan Revolution: see English civil war English civil war, 1642–48, the conflict between King Charles I of England and a large body of his subjects, generally called the "parliamentarians," that culminated in the defeat and execution of the king and the establishment of a republican commonwealth.
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The Civil War of the 1640s was not a Puritan revolution, nor did the Puritans have the kind of dominance that Phillips attributes to them.
88) And Franco Moretti boldly links Shakespeare's role-playing kings to the mid-seventeenth-century Puritan revolution, saying that tragedies and history plays "[h]aving deconsecrated the king," it became "possible to decapitate him.
As Milton's career evolved in its middle phase from poetry to pamphleteering in support of the Puritan revolution, he shifted ground radically, enthusiastically embracing the dynamic model, applying it not to commodities but to the open marketplace of ideas.
 
 
 
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