1st Edition
Writing the Reformation Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play
By Marsha Robinson
Copyright 2002
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002. This work invests the post-Shakespearean history plays of the Jacobean era - including among others Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (1613), Dekker's "The Whore of Babylon" (1606), and Heywood's "If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody" (1604-5)-with new significance by recognizing the role they played in popularizing and re-appropriating Foxe's "Book of Martyrs",... Read more
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The ‘Marvellous Working’ of the Lord: Foxean History on Stage
2. Trial and Redemption: Authority on the Tragicomic Stage of History
3. ‘Only My Conscience’: Staging the Record of Conscience
4. Confounding the Mighty with the Weak: Staging a Popular Reformation
5. ‘Even Unto Many Godly Women’: Staging a Female Reformation
6. Foxean ‘Re-visions’ on the Jacobean Stage
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Marsha Robinson
