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Prynne, William
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Prynne, William (1600–69), Puritan pamphleteer. He wrote against
Arminianism from 1627, and endeavoured to reform the manners of his age. He published
Histriomastix (1633), an enormous work attacking stage-plays. For a supposed aspersion on Charles I and his queen in it he was sentenced by the Star Chamber, in 1634, to be imprisoned during life, to be fined, and to lose both his ears in the pillory. He was released by the Long Parliament, and his sentences declared illegal in Nov. 1640. He continued an active paper warfare, attacking Laud, then the independents, then the army (1647), then, after being arrested by Pride, the government. In 1660 he asserted the rights of Charles II, and was thanked by him. He published his most valuable work
Brevia Parliamentaria Rediviva, in 1662.
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The ears of William Prynne: Richard Hughes shows there is more of historical interest to William Prynne than his famous auditory organs.(PEN PORTRAITS)(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Review; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; William Prynne's ears are a topic of fascination...some perverse humour when noting that William Prynne, vociferous opponent of long hair...considering the trial and punishment of William Prynne--and his fellow Puritan pamphleteers...
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The Muse of Mount Orgueil: A reading of William Prynne's Poetry.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne's poetry Paul D. Green p...of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne's poetry". Early Modern Literary...frontispiece, were "written by Mr. William Prynne on his Chamber walles in the Tower...
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The Muse of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne's poetry.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 9/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...Orgueil: a reading of William PrynneAEs poetry Paul...Orgueil: a reading of William PrynneAEs poetry...mutilation in 1637, Prynne was removed from the...were owritten by Mr. William Prynne on his Chamber walles...
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In defense of William Jefferson Clinton
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/29/1998; 428 words
; Not since Hester Prynne was forced to wear a scarlet letter has any person been so publicly scathed and humiliated for private behavior as has President...
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Ford, Alan, James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...him admirers from the likes of William Laud, Thomas Wentworth and Peter...including Cardinal Richelieu, William Prynne and Oliver Cromwell. Ford in...Bedford, Pym, Dering and even William Prynne. So-called 'eminent persons...
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Bodies in the audience.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...metaphorical. What, for instance, is William Prynne describing, or imagining, when...direction of literalism if we suppose Prynne to see Cupid's dart physically...bodies of innocent viewers, and yet Prynne is not exactly speaking metaphorically...
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Yearning for a Jewish life - in Cromwell's England
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/28/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...resources through inordinate taxation. Though William the Conqueror had encouraged French Jews...England. Outspoken in his opposition was William Prynne, an eccentric critic of Cromwell on every issue. Prynne, a lawyer, denounced Cromwell's leniency...
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Off the grid: lyric and politics in Andrea Brady's Embrace.
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...should it go unnoticed that William S. Burroughs (then living...phenomenology, which in J.H. Prynne's Kitchen Poems and The White...Southern poets, including Prynne, showed a greater urbanity...period from 1969 to 1971 saw Prynne's break with Olson poetically...
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UPDIKE'S SCARLET LETTER IS 'S.'.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/26/1988; 700+ words
; Byline: William Hogan "S.," by John Updike...literary descendant of Hester-Prynne - fictional heroine in Nathanial...one adulterous act, Hester Prynne was ostracized and forced...those suffered by Hester Prynne. In contrast to the tragedy...
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`Hester' Adds Flesh To `Scarlet' Heroine
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/8/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Chillingworth was a pseudonymn Roger Prynne chose after finding his adulturous...Chillingworth his real name and gives Prynne as Hester's maiden name...Bantam, $7.95). Hester Prynne wasn't the only New England...World of Louisa May Alcott, by William Anderson with photographs by...
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William Prynne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Prynne , 1600-1669, English political figure and Puritan pamphleteer...attacks on Arminian doctrine in 1627, he soon earned the enmity of William Laud . When Prynne's strictures on the theater in his book, Historiomastix (1632...
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Prynne, William
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Prynne, William (1600–69). Puritan lawyer...College, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, Prynne was hauled before the Court of Star Chamber...attack on Charles I and Henrietta Maria . Prynne was rewarded with the loss of his ears...
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William Laud
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...William Laud The English prelate William Laud (1573-1645) was archbishop...executed by the Long Parliament. William Laud was the son of a Reading clothier...forbidden to preach, and laymen like William Prynne and John Lilburne were mutilated...
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Punishment
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Zimmerman, 221 – 222] Prynne, Hester pilloried and sentenced...Lit.: Odyssey ] Tell, William ordered to shoot apple placed...x2019; s hat. [Ger. Lit.: William Tell ; Ital. Opera: Rossini, William Tell ; Westerman, 121...
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English civil war
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...raise revenue. The reprisals against Eliot and the prosecution of William Prynne and John Hampden aroused widespread indignation. Charles's chief advisers, Archbishop William Laud a
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