ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an established trend of scholarship on the cultural and political analysis of English Catholicism and its relations with the Elizabethan establishment. The historical context which frames the news of Giordano Bruno's arrival in England is marked by the Catholic challenge to the Queen's right to rule. The more balanced view developed by Catholic loyalists made Protestant orthodoxy and Catholic conformity two concepts often close and overlapping. This was particularly evident in the 1580s, the crucial period that also included Bruno's stay in England and the publication of his philosophical dialogues. The issue demands that two figures who are somehow close to the Nolan: the printer of his London works, John Charlewood, and Anthony Munday, a prolific writer, editor, dramatist, translator and actor of the age, who, in these same years, was collaborating with Charlewood's press.
