Abstract
Joseph Hall, whom Fuller designated “our English Seneca”, is chiefly remembered as a satirist, character-writer, and indefatigable champion of the Anglican faith against the onslaughts of “Smectymnuus” and Milton. But Fuller's phrase suggests a further claim on our attention. Bishop Hall was the leading Neo-Stoic of the seventeenth century, a notable practitioner of the so-called “Baroque” or “curt” style (stile coupé) of the Attic writers. It was to the Neo-Stoic brand of theology which Hall so enthusiastically preached that Sir Thomas Browne had reference when he observed in his Religio Medici that “truely there are singular pieces in the Philosophy of Zeno, and doctrine of the Stoicks, which I perceive, delivered in a pulpit, pass for current Divinity.”
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