In 1591, the preacher commonly known as Henry ‘silver-tongued’ Smith urged the congregation of St Clement Danes, London, to ‘restore that which you haue got by vsurie, or else you doe not repent of your vsurie’. This article contributes to understanding of repentance as a pervasive theme in early modern English religious culture in a highly specific manner, doing so by arguing that, during the 1590s, London was particularly associated with the need for repentance because of its perceived wealth and worldliness. By attending to the representations of repentance in Henry Holland’s fast-day sermon The Christian Exercise of Fasting (1596), Thomas Nashe’s prose tract Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem (1593), and William Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays (c. 1597–99), we uncover the way that the idea of London’s sinfulness attracted interest across a broad range of early modern literary forms.

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伦敦，忏悔和早期现代英国文学，c。1590–1600

1591 年，通常被称为“银舌”的亨利·史密斯传教士敦促伦敦圣克莱门特丹麦人的会众“恢复你从 vsurie 获得的东西，否则你就不会为你的 vsurie 悔改”。这篇文章以一种非常具体的方式帮助人们将悔改理解为早期现代英国宗教文化中的一个普遍主题，这样做是通过论证，在 1590 年代，伦敦因其感知到的财富和世俗而与悔改的需要特别相关。通过在亨利·霍兰德的禁食日布道《基督教禁食练习》（1596 年）、托马斯·纳什的散文《耶路撒冷的眼泪》（1593 年）和威廉·莎士比亚的亨利四世戏剧（约 1597-99 年）中表现出悔改的表现，