This book explores how the Reformation's transformation of religious belief into a political statement and the saturation of the national past with religious implications (created by the political developments of the 1530s) was reflected in sixteenth-century English historiography and historical drama, including Shakespeare's history plays. INDICE: I: CHRONICLES OF REFORM; 1: Fabyan's Chronicle: Reading and Religion Reformed; 2: More's Richard III: Revision and Reformation; 3: Cooper andCrowley: Continuation and Controversy; 4: Grafton and Stow: Schism and Technique; 5: Versions of Henry V: The Gravity of Foxe; II: DIVINITY AND STATE ON STAGE; 6: Reformation and Riposte: Kynge Johan and Respublica; 7: Sanctified Monarchs: The Massacre at Paris, Edward III, When You See Me You Know Me, and 1 and 2 If You Know Not Me; 8: Martyred Subjects: Martyred Subjects: Woodstock, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, 1 and 2 Edward IV, and The Life and Death of theLord Cromwell; III: DIVINITY, STATE, AND SHAKESPEARE; 9: Shakespearean Apocalypse : 1-3 Henry VI; 10: Three Experiments with the Shape of Time: Richard III, King John, and Richard II; 11: The History Play Reformed: 1 and 2 Henry IV, and Henry V; IV: CONCLUSION; 12: Riposte as Corroboration: 1 and 2 Robert Earle of Hvntington and 1 Sir John Oldcastle
- ISBN: 978-0-19-925564-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés