The Rewarde of Wickednesse

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 quasi-epic 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 polemic that draws a distinct link between sinful behaviour on earth and Hell by locating both th...