Format:
1 online resource (xii, 279 pages)
ISBN:
9781315253381
,
9781351930871
Content:
1. Harry's peregrinations : an Italianate defence of Henry VIII / Brett Foster -- 2. From perfect prince to 'wise and pollitike' king : Henry VIII in Edward Hall's Chronicle / Scott Lucas -- 3. 'It is perillous stryvinge withe princes": Henry VIII in works by Pole, Roper, and Harpsfield / Carolyn Colbert -- 4. Hands defiled with blood : Henry VIII in Foxe's 'Book of martyrs' / Thomas S. Freeman -- 5. Fallen prince pretender of the faith: Henry VIII as seen by Sander and Parsons / Victor Houliston -- 6. 'It is unpossible to draw his picture well who hath severall countenances' : Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the life and reign of King Henry VIII / Christine Jackson -- 7. Henry VIII in history : Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation (v. 1), 1679 / Andrew Starkie -- 8. 'Unblushing falsehood': the Strickland sisters and the domestic history of Henry VIII / Judith Richards -- 9. Ford Madox Ford's fifth queen and the modernity of Henry VIII / Anthony and Susannah Monta -- 10. The 'sexual everyman'? Maxwell Anderson's Henry VIII / Glen Richardson -- 11. Drama king : the portrayal of Henry VIII in Robert Bolt's A man for all seasons / Ruth Ahnert -- 12. 'Anne taught him how to be cruel': Henry VIII in modern historical fiction / Megan Hickerson -- 13. Booby, baby or classical monster? : Henry VIII in the writings of G.R. Elton and J.J. Scarisbrick / Dale Hoak -- 14. Through the eyes of a fool : Henry VIII and Margaret George's 1986 novel The autobiography of Henry VIII with notes by his fool, Will Somers / Kristen Walton.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138109308
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409400158
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409400158
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315253381
