Ranters

The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I 's defeat by Cromwell , when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Critics have recognised Churchill's debt to Christopher Hill

Before she began her travels JV was experienced in fierce public debate: with her sister she had stood up for the Women's Meetings (the source, and last remaining sign, of the movement's female power) when...

Although not prone to harping on God's vengeance, MF here calls the rival sect of the Rantersbeasts who, because of their libertinism, tend downwards into the earth instead of upwards to God.

The extremely long descriptive title promises that the Quaker faith is the same believed by the holy men and women that gave forth the Scriptures. It defines this faith in opposition to wrong faiths (probably...