This is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510-80 the book unravels the political, poetic and religious themes of the era.

Tom Betteridge is Professor of English Literature and Drama at Oxford Brookes University

Preface
Introduction
1. Pilgrims, poets and politics: The Henrician Reformation
2. Edwardian politics and poetics
3. Writing the Marian Reformation
4. Elizabethan poetics and politics
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index