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Playfere

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Play´fere`
n.1.A playfellow.
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His edition of a sermon by Thomas Playfere, The Pathway to Perfection, 1597, named the minister; his Book of the seven planets .
Shakespeare and the Chamberlain's Men in 1598 by McMillin, Scott / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Bryan Crockett's solid chapter, "Thomas Playfere's Poetics of Preaching," makes good on the Introduction's claim that "nothing was closer literary kin to the drama that flourished in early modern England than the sermon" (8) by providing a sketch of the colorful Playfere and analyzing the play of thought and emotional effect of his sermons both in terms of rhetoric and performance.
The English Sermon Revised: Religion, Literature and History ... by Christian, Margaret / Renaissance Quarterly
performance" of a 1595 sermon by Thomas Playfere, the "showiness" of the general Puritan "style of preaching," and the "verbal pyrotechnics" of pastors Playfere, Ralph Browning, and Thomas Adams.
Puritanism in Comic History: Exposing Royalty in the Henry Plays by TIFFANY, GRACE / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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