Igor Djordjevic

Remembering, Replaying, and Rereading Henry VIII (eBook, PDF)

The Courtier's Henry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It traces the evolution of the memory of Henry VIII in the century after his death, studying on Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline literary and dramatic texts down to Cromwell's Protectorate. Tracing the ways in which Henry VIII was remembered in the period reveals a dominant approach to reading history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040259887
• Artikelnr.: 72256089

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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