Remembering, Replaying, and Rereading Henry VIII

The Courtier's Henry
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-86626-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

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 group of people gathered at the theatre for a singular purpose. In order to resolve the mystery of what a group of people thought about the past in a single moment in time, this book studies Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline textual recollections that inform the moment in 1628. Tracing the ways in which Henry VIII was remembered across these years reveals a dominant approach to reading history in the early modern period, and the varied purposes of memorial activity itself.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Djordjevic, Igor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.