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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41614-6 — Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama Adrian Streete Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41614-6 — Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama Adrian Streete Index More Information Index Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 91 Anti-Catholicism Absolutism, 105–6, 208 definition, 4 Accession of King James in 1603, 60 and crisis, 20 Act of Succession, 1701, 248, 257 and European politics, 52–5 Aeneas, 62 and fantasy, 56 Affect, 12, 152–3, 161, 211, 246 and inconsistent, 55 and determinism, 84 and visual culture, 48–52 and language, 109 and wolfishness, 49 and motion, Calvinist and Epicurean Antichrist, 3, 5, 8–9, 12, 15, 38, 43, 69, 72–3, 84, contrasted, 84 121, 135, 139, 153–5, 162, 164, 171–2, 175, and polemic, 12 177, 184 and religion, 82 Anti-clericism, 29 Agamben, Giorgio, 235 Antioch, 116 Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor, 115 Antiochus III the Great of Greece, 143 Alighieri, Dante, 28, 90 Anti-papalism, 28 Allegory, 3, 5–6, 32, 42, 44, 49, 59, 95, 125, 142, Anti-popery, 9, 15, 28, 47 178–9, 202, 246 Antiquarianism, 256 and drama, 44–6 Anti-theatricalism, 13 and historical representation in drama, 45 Apocalypse Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of, and Arminianism, 131–2 64–5 and classical Literature, 26–8 Ambach, Melchior, On the End of the World, and comedy, 81–93 36 and comedy and tragedy, 83, 145 Americas, 19, 61, 68 definition, 4–5, 11 Analogy, 5, 88, 141, 248 and history, 40 Ancient Rome, 17, 27, 33, 47, 72, 111 and laughter, 41 Andrewes, Lancelot, 105 and Ottoman Empire, 88–9 Angelical Pope, 158 and peace, 80 Anglo-Dutch politics, 98 and politics, 37, 44, 154, 205–6 under Elizabeth I, 63–9 and scatology, 43 under James I, 240–8 and scepticism, 46 Anglo-Dutch speech, 87 and trade, 148–9 Anglo-Dutch trade, 148–9 and translation of empire, 205–6 Anglo-French politics, 98–101, 123, 199–239 and wedding trope, 44 Anglo-Irish politics under Elizabeth and James, Apocalyptic historiography, 40, 123 70 Apocalyptic writing, 40–1 Anglo-Spanish relations under Elizabeth I, 61–9 Apostasy, 113, 192 under James I, 240–8 Apostolic purity, 56 Anne I, 248–50 Arbitrary rule, 128, 192, 203, 206, 208, 210, 215 Anti-Catholic drama under Charles II, 202 Archangel Michael, 155 Anti-Catholic imagery on stage, 4 Ardolino, Frank, 27 279 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41614-6 — Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama Adrian Streete Index More Information 280 Index Aristotle, 25 Epistles of John, 6 Arminianism, 8, 54, 105, 124, 131–2, 138, 148, 170, Epistles to the Thessalonians, 6 175, 179–80, 195 Ezekiel, 6 Arminianism and Richard Montagu, 131–2 Ezra, 99 Armitage, David, 259 Genesis, 85 Army, 169, 173, 185, 187–8, 192, 232 Isaiah, 6, 61, 79 Ashcraft, Richard, 210 Jeremiah, 6 Ashton, Thomas, Julian the Apostate, 116 Jesus Christ, 6, 14, 33, 42, 62, 110, 119, 150, 159, Asia, 149, 151–2, 160 161, 181, 196 Ataraxia, 86 John the Baptist, 168 Atheism, 193 Lamentations, 6 Athens, 111 Lazarus, 143, 152 Atterbury Plot, 1722, 249, 252 Leviticus, 107 Augustine of Hippo, 29, 35, 38, 97, 111 Luke, 189 Augustine of Hippo, De Civitate Dei, 33 Matthew, 6, 14 Augustine of Hippo, theories of history, 33 Moses, 107 Austria, 136–7 New Jerusalem, 3, 8, 39 Aylmer, John, 64 New Testament, 6, 12 Old Testament, 6 Baldwin, Richard, 214, 244 Paul the Apostle, 41 Bale, John, 4, 13, 36, 38, 66, 89, 156 Pilate, 152, 196 Bale, John, King Johan, 42 Psalms, 80, 116, 118 Bale, John, The Image of Both Churches, 36 Revelation, 88, 92, 107, 112, 125, 154, 162, Bale, John, The Pageant of Popes, 36 186, 197 Barbarini, Cardinal Francesco, 164 Revelation, beasts from the sea and earth, 3 Barbarosa, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, 41 Revelation – definition, 5 Barbour, Reid, 133–5, 146 Revelation and exegesis, 7 Barlow, William, 108 Revelation and Four horseman of the Barrillon, Paul, French Ambassador, 213, 218 apocalypse, 3, 38 Barrington, Sir Thomas, 178–9 Revelation, Gog and Magog, 3, 155 Barnes, Barnabe, The Devil’s Charter, 14–16, 49 Revelation, number of the beast, 174 Bartholomew Fair, 240 Revelation, seven angels of the apocalypse, 162 Batman, Stephen, 30 Revelation, seven seals and vials, 3, 162 Battle of Alcazar, 1578, 142–3, 157 Revelation and Tragedy, 1, 41 Battle of White Mountain, 1620, 126 Saul, 118 Bauckham, Richard, 37 Song of Songs, 6 Beaumont, Francis, The Knight of the Burning 2 Thessalonians, 57, 173 Pestle, 47 Timothy and Peter’s Epistles, 6 Beckingham, Charles, The Tragedy of King Henry Whore of Babylon, 3–5, 38, 48, 59, 78, 88–9, IV of France, 251–2 91, 107, 162, 190, 202, 205 Bedloe, William, The Excommunicated Prince, and drunkenness, 4 46, 202 Zachariah, 6 Behn, Aphra, The Feign’d Curtizans, 202 Zion, 79 Behn, Aphra, The Roundheads, 202 apocrypha, 2 Esdras, 6 Behn, Aphra, The Young King, 202 dramatic uses of, 82 Bellarmine, Robert, 18, 100–2, 118 literalism, 6 Bernard of Clairvaux, 90 manipulation of, 14 Beza, Theodore, 104–5, 207, 214, 219 political readings, 82 Bible Biblical allusion, 21 Babylon, 44, 48, 80, 90, 107–8, 112, 125, 172 Bigotry, 2, 9, 258 Caiaphas, 180 definition of, 2 Cain, 102 Bill of Rights, 1689, 247, 253 Daniel, 6, 35 Bills of Exclusion, 201 David, 6, 118 Bishop Theophilus, 155 Ephesians, 82, 116 Bishops’ Wars, 1639–40, 165, 168, 178, 181 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41614-6 — Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama Adrian Streete Index More Information Index 281 Black Legend, 69 ‘Catholic’ Church and Reformation, 7 Blackfriars, 95 Catholic League, 224 Blackwell, George, Arch Priest, 100 Cecil, Robert, 68, 71 Blasphemy, 14 Censorship, 118, 132–3, 176 Blazon, 150 and The Lady’s Tragedy, 132–3 ‘Blessed Revolution’, 123 Centlivre, Susannah, The Cruel Gift, 252 Blount, Charles, 226 Chakravorty, Swapan, 95 Blount, Charles, An Appeal from the Gentry, Chaos, 24, 84 214 Chapman, George, 81 Blount, Charles, 8th Baron Mountjoy, 70 Chapman, George, Byron, 142 Boaden, James, The Italian Monk, 255 Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, 62, 127, Bohemia, 125 155, 159, 233 Book of Common Prayer, 164 Charles I, 22, 54, 56, 164–84 Borgia Family, 14 Arminianism, 164–84 Bourbons, 28 Civil Wars, 164–84 Braudel, Fernand, 16 militant protestantism, 139 Brexit, 257 parliament, 164–84 Briggs, Julia, 111 personal rule, 136, 166–7 British Empire, 19 prerogative, 129 British nation and anti-Catholicism, 52–5, tonnage and poundage, 135 254–60 as militant protestant hero, 164–84 Brocardo, Giacopo, 65 as rex bellicus., 123 Brome, Richard, The Court Beggar, 182 Charles II, 19, 22, 56, 199, 228 Broughton, Hugh, 25, 27, 47 Charles II, Declaration to all his Loving Subjects, Broughton, Hugh, A Concent of Scripture, 48–9 221 Buc, Sir George, 95 Charles V of Spain, and Holy Roman Emperor, Buchanan, George, 104–5, 207, 214 35, 40, 45, 61, 127, 150 Buchanan, George, Baptistes, 168 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 28, 43, 176 Budgell, Eustace, 252 Cheke, Henry, Free Will, 44 Bullinger, Heinrich, 34, 36, 120 Chelsea College, 102 Burnett, Mark Thornton, 59, 81 Chettle, Henry and Thomas Dekker, King Bushnell, Rebecca, 95, 119 Sebastian of Portugal, 142 Butler, Martin, 165, 182–3 Chillingworth, William, 9 Byzantine Empire, 120 Christian IV of Denmark, 136 Christology, 161, 180–1 Cabbala, 158 Cibber, Colley, Papal Tyranny in the Reign of Cadiz, 128 King John, 253 Caesar, 27 Cibber, Colley, The Non Juror, 251 Caesar Augustus, Roman Emperor, 155, 206 Cicero, 71 Caesaro-papist monarchy, Henry VIII, 62 Circe, 43, 91 Calvin, John, 104–5, 152, 191, 207, 219 Civil Wars, 35, 56, 126, 175–6, 204, 224 Calvinism, 8, 82, 86, 104, 121, 132, 138, 149, 195, and news culture, 185 243 and Scotland, 166–71 and censorship, 132–3 army, 187–8 and moderation, 73, 79 petitions, 175–6 Campion, Edmund, 64 trade and economics, 171, 175–6 Carelton, Dudley, 1st Viscount Dorchester, 140 Clare, Janet, 95, 97 Carion, Johann, Chronicle, 36 Claydon, Tony, 247, 258 Carlell, Lodowick, Heraclius, 115 Cleopatra, 15, 92, 183 Carnivalesque, 199, 233 Cogswell, Thomas, 123 Carthage, 145, 160 Cohn, Norman, 127 Cartwright, Thomas, 105 Coligny, Gaspard II de, 219 Cartwright, William, 133, 135 Colley, Linda, 9 Casaubon, Isaac, 97 Colonialism, 19, 122, 212, 248, 254, 259 Castille, 151 Comedy, 173, 178, 180 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41614-6 — Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama Adrian Streete Index More Information 282 Index Comic and tragic rhetoric, 83 Dekker, Thomas, and John Webster, Westward Comoedia apocalyptica, 43–4, 180 Ho, 76 Conciliarism, 55, 98–101, 103 Dekker, Thomas, and Philip Massinger, The Conciliation, 4 Virgin Martyr, 111 Confessionalisation, 255 Demonology, 117 Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor, 39, Dent, Arthur, 1, 37, 89 112–13 The Ruine of Rome, 72, 112 Constantinople, 113, 159 Deposition, 100, 102, 106 Constitutional royalism, 165, 174, 190–1, 198 Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, 65, 68–9 Constitutionalism, 218–19, 226, 233, 247 Devil, 14–15, 49, 77, 148, 177, 202, 225, 232 Contracts and Contractualism, 209–11, 217, Diocletian, Roman Emperor, 111 253 Dissenters, 206 Conventicles, 168, 207 Divine comedy, 92 Conversion, 88, 117, 154 Divine right, 198 Cooper, Anthony-Ashley, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, Dolan, Frances, 11 213, 222 Donne, John, Pseudo- Martyr, 100 Cooper, Farah Karim, 95 Dove, John, 25 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, The, 202 Downame, George, 89 Corpse, 95 Drake, Sir Francis, 65 Correr, Marc’ Antonio, Venetian
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