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Remembering, Replaying, and Rereading Henry VIII: The Courtier’s Henry book cover

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Remembering, Replaying, and Rereading Henry VIII The Courtier’s Henry

By Igor Djordjevic Copyright 2025
224 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book begins by asking about the memorial issues involved in the replaying of an old history play, Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII , at the Globe on 29 July 1628, but it is not primarily concerned with the memory of a single individual, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham who paid for the production, nor even of a single day, when he seemed to try to evoke the memories of a small... Read more

List of Figures

Note on the Text

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction: Why This? Why Now?

1 Reading History: “Marry, how? Tropically”

2 Chronicle Origins: Nosce te ipsum

3 The Sun behind the Clouds

4 Staging Absent Majesty

5 The Pivot: Rowley’s “Bluff King Hal”

6 “The times and titles now are altered strangely”: Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Coda

7 Henry in Hell: Memorial Transmission to 1628 and Beyond

8 A Poisonous Jest: The Haunting of 1628

 

Works Cited

Index

Biography

Igor Djordjevic is Associate Professor of Early Modern English Literature at York University, and the author of two previous books: Holinshed’s Nation: Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles (Routledge, 2010) and King John [Mis]remembered: the Dunmow Chronicle, the Lord Admiral’s Men, and the Formation of Cultural Memory (Routledge, 2015). His research interests are in the history of reading and the relationship between English cultural memory and historical writing in the early modern period.

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