Corrosive Images of the Roman Catholic Church in John Bale's Protestant Propagandist Works

This article focusses on John Bale's drama and the manner in which the conventions of the pre-Reformation plays were revised for Protestant propagandist purposes. Bale's pamphlets and treatises are also be referred to when they provide insight into the corrosive images of Catholicisme that invade Bale's play-world.