Volume 53, Number 2 · February 9, 2006
The Plot That Failed
By Eamon Duffy
God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
by Alice Hogge
HarperCollins, 445 pp., $27.95
Remember Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day
by James Sharpe
Harvard University Press, 230 pp., $19.95
Every year on November 5, towns and villages throughout England erupt into flame and flash, to the noise of exploding gunpowder. Though losing ground in some places to the American import of Halloween, Guy Fawkes Day, or 'Bonfire Night,' is still very widely observed, a noisy national festival of light, fire, and explosions in the face of deepening winter.
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