Writing the Reformation: Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play

by Marsha Robinson

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", one of the most formative and culturally significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138731285
• ISBN13: 9781138731288
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages