Stubbs, Philip

Stubbs, Philip

▪ English pamphleteer
born c. 1555
died c. 1610, London

      vigorous Puritan (Puritanism) pamphleteer and propagandist for a purer life and straiter devotion whose Anatomie of Abuses (1583), his most popular work, consisted of a devastating attack on English habits in dress, food, drink, games, and especially sex. At first Stubbs was inclined to condemn only excessive concentration on worldly pastimes, but in later works he denounced all forms of them. His Christal Glasse for Christian Women (1591), a biographical account of his wife, depicts her as an even narrower Puritan than he was himself. On her deathbed she declared her affection for a puppy to have been sinful vanity. His style and conventional subject matter make it doubtful that, as some scholars have alleged, Stubbs had a part in writing the Marprelate (Marprelate Controversy) tracts, articles published during the most famous Elizabethan pamphlet war.

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