Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?

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Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry ?

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To what does the phrase the stigma of printrefer ?

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Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?

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Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation ?

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