An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate. by Thomas Nash et al.
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"An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate" attributed to Thomas Nashe is a pamphlet published in 1590. Part of England's fierce Marprelate Controversy, this work was secretly commissioned by church authorities to combat puritan attacks on the Anglican establishment. Nashe and other writers were enlisted to answer Martin Marprelate's satirical assaults using his own railing style. The pamphlet represents a charged moment when religious debate descended into street-level
mockery and personal abuse, transforming theological argument into literary warfare. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Dubious author | Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601 |
|---|---|
| Dubious author | Lyly, John, 1554?-1606 |
| Editor | Petheram, John, 1809-1858 |
| LoC No. | 49035841 |
| Title | An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate. |
| Series Title | Puritan discipline tracts. |
| Note | The Marprelate controversy at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marprelate_Controversy |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity |
| Subject | Marprelate controversy |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 65460 |
| Release Date | May 28, 2021 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 348 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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