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Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall 1574-1656, English prelate and author. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and became bishop of Exeter, 1627-41, and of Norwich, 1641-47. The rise of Puritanism involved him in serious church difficulties, and his vigorous defense of the episcopacy against its attackers resulted in his imprisonment in 1641 on charges of high treason. He was eventually released, but he lived the remainder of his life in poverty. Hall's most notable work, his verse satires, modeled after the Roman satirist Juvenal, appeared in two parts: Virgidemiarum or Toothless Satires (1597) and Biting Satires (1598). He also wrote prose satires, poems, meditations, and autobiographical tracts.
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"Joseph Hall." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Joseph Hall." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Hall-Jos.html "Joseph Hall." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Hall-Jos.html |
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Hall, Joseph
Hall, Joseph (1574–1656), was successively bishop of Exeter (1627) and of Norwich (1641), where, in 1643, he was sequestered, his revenues and bishop's palace seized, his cathedral desecrated. He published two volumes of satires, Virgidemiarum, Sex Libri; a semi-bawdy satirical novel in Latin, Mundus Alter et Idem; and, very probably, the last play in the St John's College Parnassus Plays. He is famous for his plain Senecan prose style and is responsible for initiating several literary genres: the first to publish his epistles in English (1608–10); the beginner of the mode of character-writing (1608); the introducer of Juvenalian satire. He was employed as a controversialist by King James and later by Laud against Smectymnuus.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hall, Joseph." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hall, Joseph." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HallJoseph.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Hall, Joseph." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-HallJoseph.html |
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Hall, Joseph
Hall, Joseph (1574–1656), Bp. of Norwich. He attended the Synod of Dort as one of James I's representatives. In 1627 he became Bp. of Exeter. When the bishops were attacked in Parliament in 1640, Hall defended his order. He was translated to Norwich in 1641, but his income was impounded by Parliament and he lived in poverty.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Hall, Joseph." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Hall, Joseph." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-HallJoseph.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Hall, Joseph." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-HallJoseph.html |
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