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This essay explains how Robert Southwell's "St Peter's Complaint" works as an alchemical allegory expressing the process of Peter's spiritual development while also encoding the experience of Catholic recusants in Elizabethan England.

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This page is a summary of: 7. Alchemy, Repentance, and Recusant Allegory in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peters Complaint, January 2012, University of Toronto Press (UTPress),
DOI: 10.3138/9781442695481-009.
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