Bale, John 1495-1563

Overview

Works:	490 works in 1,128 publications in 8 languages and 13,216 library holdings
Genres:	Historical drama Comedies
Roles:	Editor, Translator, Compiler, Creator
Classifications:	pr2209.b2, 822.2

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Publications about John Bale

Publications by John Bale

Publications by John Bale, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about John Bale

John Bale by Peter Happé ( Book )
John Bale, mythmaker for the English Reformation by Leslie P Fairfield ( Book )
John Bale; a study in the minor literature of the Reformation by Jesse W Harris ( Book )
John Bale, dramatist and antiquary by Honor Cecilia McCusker ( Book )
The plays of John Bale. A study of ideas, technique and style by Thora Balslev Blatt ( Book )

Books of Bale : a fiction of history by John Arden ( Book )
Mittelalterliche Tradition und reformatorische Polemik in den Spielen John Bales by Klaus Sperk ( Book )
The persecution and oppression (which, as Solomon saith, is able to make a wise man mad,) of John Bale that was called to be Bishop of Ossory, by the sole election, without any other mans motion, of that pious king, Edw. 6 : and of Gruffith [sic] Williams, that was called after the same manner to the same bishoprick by the sole election, without any other mans motion, of that most excellent, pious king, and glorious martyr, Charles I : two learned men, and Right Reverend Bishops of Ossory by Gryffith Williams ( Book )
Writings of John Fox, Bale, and Coverdale by John Foxe ( Book )
Books of Bale by John Arden ( Book )
A bibliography of John Bale by William Twiston Davies ( Book )
The vocacyon of Ioha[n] Bale to the bishiprick of Ossorie in Irela[n]de his persecucio[n]s in ye same, & finall delyueraunce by John Bale ( Book )
Untersuchungen über die Sprache John Bale's by Otto Moser ( Book )
The vocacyon of Ioha[n] Bale to the bishiprick of Ossorie in Irela[n]de his persecucio[n] in ye same, & finall delyueraunce by John Bale ( Book )
The life and works of John Bale, 1495-1563 by Jesse W Harris ( Book )
Books and manuscripts formerly in the possession of John Bale by Honor McCusker ( Book )
Protestant themes and theses in the drama of John Bale by Robert Lee Duncan ( Book )
A holy desperation : the literary quest for grace in the Reformed English tradition from John Bale to John Bunyan by Gail Clark Ritchie Henson ( Book )
The resurreccion of the masse by Christina Hallowell Garrett ( Book )
Wassail : [from] Carols of the nativity : for SSAATB chorus and optional piano or organ by Stephen Chatman ( )

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Most widely held works by John Bale

Elizabeth's glass with "The glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I, and "Epistle dedicatory" & "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale by Marc Shell ( Book )
5 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 738 libraries worldwide
As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical. Four years later her translation, titled "The Glass of the Sinful Soul," was published by the Protestant reformer John Bale. However ingenuous Elizabeth may have been at eleven, she surely realized the implications of the tract when she permitted new editions in 1568, 1582, and 1590. Its bearing on her own family and her precarious hold on the throne was all too obvious when dissenters accused both her father, Henry VIII, and her mother, Ann Boleyn, of adultery, when her father had sought to annul his first marriage on grounds of incest, when her mother was accused by Henry of incest, and when Elizabeth herself was deemed a bastard. Making Elizabeth's little-known work readily available to today's scholars, Elizabeth's Glass includes a photographic reproduction of Elizabeth's manuscript and a modern transcription, as well as John Bale's additions to his 1548 edition. In an erudite and penetrating introduction, Marc Shell investigates the complex political, familial, theological, and ecclesiastical forces that made Elizabeth acutely conscious of incest and made her translation an emblem of a controversy that stormed throughout Reformation Europe.

King Johan by John Bale ( Book )
25 editions published between 1931 and 1995 in English and held by 493 libraries worldwide

Dramatic writings by John Bale ( Book )
13 editions published between 1907 and 1966 in English and held by 469 libraries worldwide

Kynge Johan, a play in two parts by John Bale ( Book )
16 editions published between 1838 and 1968 in English and held by 402 libraries worldwide

A humanist's "trew imitation": Thomas Watson's Absalom; a critical edition and translation by Thomas Watson ( Book )
5 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 373 libraries worldwide

The chief promises of God unto man; God's promises by John Bale ( Book )
55 editions published between 1538 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 336 libraries worldwide

The temptation of our Lord by John Bale ( Book )
38 editions published between 1538 and 1995 in English and German and held by 322 libraries worldwide

The complete plays of John Bale by John Bale ( Book )
9 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 267 libraries worldwide

A comedy concerning three laws of nature, Moses and Christ by John Bale ( Book )
26 editions published between 1882 and 1995 in English and held by 251 libraries worldwide

The vocacyon of Johan Bale by John, 1495-1563 Bale ( Book )
8 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 250 libraries worldwide

Dramatic writings of John Bale, Bishop of Ossory by John Bale ( Book )
14 editions published between 1907 and 1966 in English and held by 211 libraries worldwide

Select works of John Bale, D.D., Bishop of Ossory : containing the examinations of Lord Cobham, William Thorpe, and Anne Askewe, and The image of both churches by John Bale ( Book )
7 editions published between 1849 and 2007 in English and held by 211 libraries worldwide

Index Britanniae scriptorum quos ex variis bibliothecis non parvo labore collegit Ioannes Baleus, cum aliis, John Bale's Index of British and other writers by John Bale ( Book )
21 editions published between 1902 and 1990 in Latin and English and held by 196 libraries worldwide

The recovery of the past in early Elizabethan England : documents by John Bale and John Joscelyn from the circle of Matthew Parker by Timothy Graham ( Book )
2 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 157 libraries worldwide

Bales Kynge Johan, nach der Handschrift in der Chatsworth Collection in Faksimile hrsg by John Bale ( Book )
2 editions published in 1909 in German and held by 145 libraries worldwide

The image of bothe churches, after the moste wonderfull and heauenly Reuelacion of Sainct John the Euangelist, contayning a very frutefull exposicion or paraphrase upon the same. Wherin it is conferred with the other scripturs, and most auctorised historyes by John Bale ( Book )
5 editions published between 1548 and 1973 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide

The actes of Englysh votaryes by John Bale ( Book )
20 editions published between 1546 and 1979 in English and Dutch and held by 122 libraries worldwide

Select works of John Bale. Containing the examinations of Lord Cobham, William Thorpe, and Anne Askewe, and the image of both churches by John Bale ( Book )
9 editions published between 1849 and 1968 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide

Scriptorvm illustriu Maioris Brytannie̜ quam nunc Angliam & Scotiam uocant: Catalogus by John Bale ( Book )
15 editions published in 1959 in Latin and Italian and held by 112 libraries worldwide

The first two partes of the actes or vnchast examples of the Englysh votaryes by John Bale ( Book )
2 editions published between 1551 and 1985 in English and held by 96 libraries worldwide

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