Historia
BATMAN, STEPHEN († 1584)
Escribió: Christiall Glass for Christian Reformation, treating on the 7 deadly Sinns, Londres, 1569; Travayled Pilgreme, bringing Newes from all Parts of the Worlde, such like scarce harde before, [Londres, por John Denham], 1569. Una novela de alegoría teológica de la vida del hombre, en versos de catorce sílabas, en la que se introducen personajes e incidentes históricos relativos a los reinados de Enrique VIII, Eduardo VI, María e Isabel. Joyfull Newes out of Helvetia, from Theophr. Paracelsum, declaring the ruinate fall of the papal dignitie: also a treatise against Usury, Londres, 1575; The golden booke of the leaden goddes, wherein is described the vayne imaginations of heathen Pagans and counterfaict. Christians: wytb a description of their several Tables, what ech of their pictures signified, Londres, 1577. Este curioso volumen, dedicado a Lord Hunsdon, contiene la primera descripción de una serie de deidades paganas consideradas dioses por los griegos. Sigue una relación de los dioses de la superstición, pertenecientes a la Iglesia católica, estando los nombres de Arrio, Donato, Henry Nicolas, etc. con 'certaine vpstart Anabaptisticall Errours.' A la cabeza de los dioses sectarios se coloca el papa por su herejía. Shakespeare se supone que consultó este libro. Preface to I[ohn] R[ogers]’s ‘Displaying of an horrible Secte of grosse and wicked lleretiques naming themselves the Family of Love, 1579; The Doome warning all men to the Judgement: Wherein are contained for the most parte all the straunge Prodigies hapned in the Worlde, with divers secrete figures of Itevelations tending to i mannes stayed conversion towardes God: In maner of a generall Chronicle, gathered out , of snndrie approved authors, Londres, 1581. Dedicado a Sir Thomas Bromley, caballero, lord canciller de Inglaterra. Batman uppon Bartholome, His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum; newly corrected, enlarged, & amended, with such Additions as are requisite, unto every severall Booke. Taken foorth of the most approved Authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all Estates, as well for the benefite of the Mind as the Bodie, Londres, 1582. Dedicado a Lord Hunsdon. Notas sobre Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie Laudable, of Prince Arthure and his knightly Armory of the Round Table, 1583, de Richard Robinson. The new arrival of the three Gracia into Anglia, lamenting the abusis of this present age, Londres, sin fecha.