Crackinge Thraso: The Braggart Soldier Image in Sixteenth-Century Sermons and Religious Polemic.
The article contributes to recent debates about the use of “profane learning” by humanist scholars in the sixteenth century in their sermons and religious polemic. It does this by surveying the use of references in such texts to the braggart soldier “Thraso” from the ancient Roman comedyEunuchus, by...
| Published in: | English Studies Vol. 98; no. 7; pp. 704 - 717 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2017
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