A scholarly edition The Life and Death of Mr. Badman: Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue Between Mr Wiseman and Mr Attentive by James F. Forrest and Roger Sharrock. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Introduction. Relationship to "The pilgrim's progress"; the dialogue form; judgement stories; other associated traditions, the picaresque, the exemplum, the posthumous; a moral and social fiction; the text; the illustrations; critical reception. "The life and death of Mr Badman". Notes. Index

`edited by James F. Forrest and Professor Sharrock himself with definitive lucidity' John Drury, English Literature 'contextualizing is persuasively done and is entirely appropriate in what must without question henceforth be the standard edition of this seventeenth-century text' N.H. Keeble, University of Stirling, Notes and Queries 'fills an important gap in the literature on the subject ... His work stands out for providing a most comprehensive examination of the EPC process ... The scope of the book transcends the mere historical account and deals with issues which are essential for a thorough as well as wider understanding of EPC ... the writing skills of the author should be commended. Academics often confuse the need for lucid argumentation and clear presentation of facts with the employment of a stern or pedantic style. Nuttall avoids this trap. The argument is put forward with impeccable clarity, while his use of the English language remains imaginative and literary rather than academic.' Totis Kotsonis, London School of Economics and Political Science, Millenium