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Richard Robinson, 'The Rewarde of Wickednesse'

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Richard Robinson, 'The Rewarde of Wickednesse' - Ward, Allyna E (Editor)
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Richard Robinson's 'The Rewarde of Wickednesse' (1574) is a quasi-epic poem that imitates the de casibus form of 'A Mirror for Magistrates' and makes a clear indication of the hellish position of the damned. Robinson wrote the poem during the period when his employer, George Talbot, was appointed as the jailer over Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart during the period of her imprisonment at Sheffield Castle and Sheffield Manor. The poem is anti-Catholic polemic, but it is not simply an invective against Catholicism; Robinson's ...

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Richard Robinson, 'The Rewarde of Wickednesse' 2009, Modern Humanities Research Association

ISBN-13: 9780947623852

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