Shell, Alison

This name is an alias for Emmanuel Lobb see Simons, Joseph , in ODNB. On inter-generational exhortation, see Alison Shell, Furor Juvenilis Post-Reformation English Catholicism and Exemplary Youthful Behaviour , in Ethan Shagan (ed.), Catholics and the Protestant Nation Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press, 2005), 185-206. 

See Alison Shell, Autodidacticism in English Jesuit Drama The Writings and Career of Joseph Simons , Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 3 (2000), 34-56. 

For Wilson, tMs is the clearest indication of how the finest wif and sweetest vein of Ms generation had been expected to produce Christian works that lent Ms talent to the Catholic cause . Alison Shell develops tMs noting that Simon Hunt, Shakespeare s first schoolmaster, who subsequently became a Jesuit, knew Southwell intimately , she points out that... 

Alison Shell, Why Didn t Shakespeare Write Religious Verse , in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson New Directions in Biography, edited by Takashi Kozuka and J. R. Mulryne (Burlington Ashgate, 2006), p. 85. 

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