Bold Conscience - Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action

About the author

Joshua R. Held is assistant professor of English at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. His scholarship has appeared in Studies in Philology, Modern Philology, Milton Studies, and Shakespeare Survey.

Summary

Explores how the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action. The book chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint - what Shakespeare labels ‘coward conscience’ - to one of bold and forthright self-assertion.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua R Held, Joshua R. Held
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9780817361112
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6111-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Strode Studies in Early Modern; Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies