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Zusatztext Womersley combines impeccable historical scholarship with critical acumen in this original and challenging book Informationen zum Autor David Womersley was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is currently the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. His publications include The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin, 1994) and Gibbon and the Watchmen of the Holy City: the Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815 (Oxford, 2002). He has edited Edmund Burke's Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Penguin, 1998), Restoration Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000), Cultures of Whiggism (University of Delaware Press, 2005), Literary Milieux (University of Delaware Press, 2008), and Boswell's Life of Johnson (Penguin, 2008). His current projects include a biography of Gibbon (for Yale University Press), and monographs provisionally entitled Literary Whiggism 1680-1730 and English Literature and Colonial Tension, 1765-88. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: CHRONICLES OF REFORM 1: Fabyan's Chronicle: Reading and Religion Reformed 2: More's Richard III: Revision and Reformation 3: Cooper and Crowley: 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 the Lord 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 ...
