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Brigham Young University

Comparative Literature

2014

John Bale

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John Bale’S Kynge Johan As English Nationalist Propaganda, G. D. George Jan 2014

John Bale’S Kynge Johan As English Nationalist Propaganda, G. D. George

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John Bale is generally associated with the English Reformation rather than the Tudor government. It may be that Bale’s well-know protestant polemics tend to overshadow his place in Thomas Cromwell’s propaganda machine, and that Bale’s Kynge Johan is more a propaganda piece for the Tudor monarchy than it is just another of his Protestant dramas..