Joseph Hall (bishop)
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Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in f
Detail of an engraving by John Payne (1628)
The Dolphin Inn, Norwich, in the building where Hall had his palace from 1643 to 1647
Title page of Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum, 1597.
Thomas Nashe
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Thomas Nashe was an English Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless, and his
Joseph Hall (bishop)
…it was felt to be an attack on established institutions. John Whitgift, the archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that Hall's satires, along with works of Thomas Nashe, John Marston, Christopher Marlowe, Sir John Davies and others should be burnt, on the ground of licentiousness; but shortly afterwards Hall's book was…
Polemical woodcut deriding Nashe as jailbird. From Richard Lichfield's The Trimming of Thomas Nashe, Gentleman (1597)