books.google.com - The image of the puritan as a dour and repressive character has been central to ways of reading sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history and literature. Kristen Poole's original study challenges this perception arguing that radical reformers were most often portrayed in literature of the period as...http://books.google.com/books/about/Radical_Religion_from_Shakespeare_to_Mil.html?id=db-2geA6cjkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRadical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton