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Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England
Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England Author:Anne Lake Prescott This engaging book explores Renaissance England`s ambivalent responses to the notorious French writer Francois Rabelais, famed for his learning, wordplay, and insight, but also for his scoffing, supposed atheism, filth, and irresponsible whimsy. English writers including Ben Jonson, John Donne, James I, Shakespeare, and many others both apprecia... more »ted and condemned Rabelais, expressing the divisions and ambiguities of their times.« less