“Nay ’tis in grain, I warrant it hold colour”: The Materiality of Black in Middleton’s Black Book by Chantal SCHÜTZ

“…Starting with the satirical Microcynicon and flourishing in the self-referential Black Book, Thomas Middleton’s obsession with black, the colour of ink and atrabile, pervades his non-dramatic texts but also his plays, both tragic and comic. …”
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Église et scandales : Trollope ou la condamnation de l’excès by Hervé Picton

“…The 1830s were marked by a host of Church scandals widely reported by the press and in particular by the radical journalist John Wade in his Extraordinary Black Book published anonymously in 1831. Wade lashes out at idleness, pluralism and absenteeism and exposes shocking disparities in income among the clergy of the established Church. …”
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