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Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (Paperback)
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Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633 (Paperback)
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In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist
reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific
authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres,
including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry,
chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama,
and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only
for money, Munday is here restored to his rightful position as an
historical figure at the centre of many important political and
cultural events in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In
Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, Hamilton reinterprets
Munday as a writer who began his career writing on behalf of the
Catholic cause and subsequently negotiated for several decades the
difficult terrain of an ever-changing Catholic-Protestant cultural,
religious, and political landscape. She argues that throughout his
life and writing career Munday retained his Catholic sensibility
and occasionally wrote dangerously on behalf of Catholics. Thus he
serves as an excellent case study through which present-day
scholars can come to a fuller understanding of how a person living
in this turbulent time in English history - eschewing open
resistance, exile or martyrdom - managed a long and prolific
writing career at the centre of court, theatre, and city activities
but in ways that reveal his commitment to Catholic political and
religious ideology. Individual chapters in this book cover Munday's
early writing, 1577-80; his writing about the trial and execution
of Jesuit Edmund Campion; his writing for the stage, 1590-1602; his
politically inflected translations of chivalric romance; and his
writings for and about the city of London, 1604-33. Hamilton
revisits and revalues the narratives told by earlier scholars about
hack writers, the anti-theatrical tracts, the role of the Earl of
Oxford as patron, the political-religious interests of Munday's
plays, the implications of Mu
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