Dr Daniel Derrin daniel.derrin@durham.ac.uk
Honorary/Visiting/Emeritus
Crackinge Thraso: the Braggart Soldier Image in Sixteenth-Century Sermons and Religious Polemic
Derrin, Daniel
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Abstract
The article contributes to recent debates about the use of “profane learning” by humanist scholars in the sixteenth century in their sermons and religious polemic. It does this by surveying the use of references in such texts to the braggart soldier “Thraso” from the ancient Roman comedy Eunuchus, by Terence. The article situates the surprising number of references to this morally dubious figure—in sermons, polemic and wider religious writing—within a Renaissance pedagogy that stressed the character’s usefulness for the moral and political imagination. Identifying differences between the rhetorical contexts of sermons and polemic, it surveys and analyses a range of references to Thraso, and argues that even evocations of such a resolutely hateful figure as Thraso could vary in comic tone. In addition, such evocations were not only simple quotations or epithets; they could also be attempts to channel whole scenes from Terence’s play.
Citation
Derrin, D. (2017). Crackinge Thraso: the Braggart Soldier Image in Sixteenth-Century Sermons and Religious Polemic. English Studies, 98(7), 704-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2017.1339991
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 2, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 18, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jul 18, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Mar 15, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 18, 2019 |
Journal | English Studies |
Print ISSN | 0013-838X |
Electronic ISSN | 1744-4217 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 98 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | 704-716 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2017.1339991 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1382980 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in English Studies on 18/07/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0013838x.2017.1339991.
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