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John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20060101
Author:Todd, Richard

John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit. By JEANNE SHAMI. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 13) Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. ix+318 pp. 50[pounds sterling]; $85. ISBN 0-85991-789-4.

The author of this magnificent book, Jeanne Shami, shot to international scholarly fame with her discovery in December 1992 that the anonymously catalogued British Library MS Royal 17. B. XX was a rare contemporaneous scribal copy of John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot sermon. The real significance of this discovery was Shami's definitive attribution of the correcting hand to ...

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