Abstract
Discusses the use of the dialogue in Renaissance Scotland, and explores the background, themes, and dramatic art of Ane Dialogue (1619), concerning the Five Articles of Perth (1618), and resistance to the church policies of King James VI & I; gives character-sketches of the four speakers, James Melville, William Balcanquhall, Archibald Johnstone, and John Smyth, and of their satiric target, the Edinburgh minister William Struthers; concludes by providing an annotated edition of the dialogue transcribed from the sole manuscript, National Library of Scotland, Wodrow Quarto LXXXIV, ff. 19-25.
Recommended Citation
Reid Baxter, Jamie
(2017)
"Posthumous Preaching: James Melville's Ghostly Advice in Ane Dialogue (1619), with an Edition from the Manuscript,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 43:
Iss.
1, 71–101.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol43/iss1/9