"Your captain is brave and vows reformation": Jack Cade, the Hacket rising, and Shakespeare's vision of popular rebellion in 2 Henry VI.

Shakespeare Studies | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

"And do not stand on quillets how to slay him ..."

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   Thus died the most dangerous firebrand of sedition, most detestable 
   traitor, most hypocriticall seducer, and most execrable blasphemous 
   helhound, that many ages ever sawe, or heard of, in this lande. (1)

THESE WELL-TURNED THUNDERCLAPS roll to a formulaic horror. This is the familiar rhetoric for impeachment of a rebel against the state, its piously nauseated hyperbole fusing arraignments of religious offense, moral sophistry, and treason. Found commonly where Tudor governments ...

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