{"product_id":"books-the-martin-marprelate-tracts-by-joseph-l-black","title":"The Martin Marprelate Tracts","description":"The Martin Marprelate tracts are the most famous pamphlets of the English Renaissance; to their contemporaries they were the most notorious. Printed in 1588 and 1589 on a secret press carted across the English countryside from one sympathetic household to another, the seven tracts attack the Church of England, particularly its bishops (hence the pseudonym, Mar-prelate), and advocate a Presbyterian system of church government. Scandalously witty, racy, and irreverent, the Marprelate tracts are the finest prose satires of their era. Their colloquial style and playfully self-dramatizing manner influenced the fiction and theatre of the Elizabethan Golden Age. This text was the first fully annotated edition of the tracts to appear in almost a century. A lightly modernized text makes Martin Marprelate's famous voice easily accessible, and a full introduction details the background, sources, production, authorship, and seventeenth-century afterlife of the tracts.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673317531921,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521188647_dc014565-52fb-495a-b89e-ad4007192568.jpg?v=1781524915","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/books-the-martin-marprelate-tracts-by-joseph-l-black","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}