Abstract
Abstract: John Donne’s angry portrayal of Jesuits in England, different from his usual generous posture toward a wide variety of Christian confessions, is focused in Ignatius His Conclave (1611) on what he perceives to be an abuse of spiritual authority for political ends. The portrait Donne draws in his satire is a caricature of a Jesuit, one who stands apart from spiritual matters, a character clothed almost wholly in political cloth. Many cultural conditions contributed to Donne’s perception, from the English response to the Gunpowder Plot to King James’s attempt to define a difference between loyal and disloyal Roman Catholic English.
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