King John: New PerspectivesDeborah T. Curren-Aquino Illuminating Shakespeare's complex experimentation with the dramatic genre of history, these twelve essays bring such time-honored critical methods as source study and concentration on genre, imagery and language, theme, and character together with more current techniques based on historiography, the new historicism, feminism, pragmatics, performance history, and perspectivism. |
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... claim to the throne and subsequent death . The Troublesome Raigne's author also continued the tradition of Tyndale , Foxe , and the Homilie by making John's reign a vehicle for Tudor / Protestant ideology . The Troublesome Raigne is ...
... claim to the throne and subsequent death . The Troublesome Raigne's author also continued the tradition of Tyndale , Foxe , and the Homilie by making John's reign a vehicle for Tudor / Protestant ideology . The Troublesome Raigne is ...
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... claim a place in the historical narrative and challenge the myths of patriarchal authority that the men invoke to justify their actions . When John answers the French king's threat with the conventional boast , " Our strong possession ...
... claim a place in the historical narrative and challenge the myths of patriarchal authority that the men invoke to justify their actions . When John answers the French king's threat with the conventional boast , " Our strong possession ...
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... claims that she pushes her son's claim to the throne of England because he is fair and looks like a king . If he were ugly , “ I would not care , I then would be content , / For then I should not love thee ; no , nor thou / Become thy ...
... claims that she pushes her son's claim to the throne of England because he is fair and looks like a king . If he were ugly , “ I would not care , I then would be content , / For then I should not love thee ; no , nor thou / Become thy ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Historiographic Methodology of King John | 29 |
A Reexamination | 41 |
Copyright | |
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