The MHRA is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 17 in the Critical Texts series: an edition of Richard Robinson’s The Rewarde of Wickednesse prepared by Allyna E. Ward.
This volume provides the first printed critical edition of a text which has recently attracted the attention of scholars working on early modern English literature. The Rewarde of Wickednesse (1574) is a univocal poem that imitates the de casibus form of A Mirror for Magistrates and makes a clear indication of the hellish position of the damned. The poem is a vehemently anti-Catholic poem that draws a distinct link between sinful behaviour on earth and Hell by locating both the consequences and the origin of sin in Hell.
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