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review. discussed in biography English Puritan preacher and
author of The Book of Martyrs, a graphic and polemic account of
those who suffered for the cause of Protestantism. Widely read,
often the most valued book beside the Bible in the households of
English Puritans, it helped shape popular opinion about Roman
Catholicism for at least a century. The feeling of the English
populace against Spain, important in the... influence on
Shakespeare’s “King John” ...was based on the chronicles of
Raphael Holinshed and Edward Hall; Shakespeare also consulted
some chronicle materials, as well as John Foxe’s Acts and
Monuments (1563), known as The Book of Martyrs. Shakespeare made
few changes to the plot in his version, but the dialogue and
insights about the characters are all his own. What made you
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