... was venerated as a saint. In contrast to Tudor promotion of Henry as a saintly king, the popular cult–which preceded and outlived its political appropriation–celebrated Henry VI for his likeness to ordinary English men and women. This essay explores the resonance between the cult and the plays, especially how...

...Jeffrey Alan Miller The part played by the Geneva Bible in the composition of the King James Version (1611) has been a vexed issue from the very commissioning of the King James translation in 1604. This essay sheds new light on the issue by focusing in detail on two extant drafts of the King James...

... the book's annotator as John Bois (1561–1644), one of the principal translators of the King James Bible of 1611. The article explains why this and other material pertaining to Bois and the King James Version has previously been overlooked and considers how further evidence might be uncovered in the future...

...D. J. Hopkins The royal entry of King James I into London in 1604 serves as an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between public, urban performance and the primary sources that ostensibly document it. The author revisits his own past study of this occasion, revising and expanding previous...

...Lindsey Larre The many disguises of Edgar in King Lear have led critics to dub the chameleonic figure a choreographer of human compassion in a play that holds compassion as a vital dramaturgical principle. This essay argues that Edgar's performances of suffering and his choreographies of deception...

... University Press 2017 John Ford Perkin Warbeck English monarchy sanctuary pity • • A Once and Future King: Sanctuary, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Pity...

...Charlotte Artese © by Duke University Press 2003 King Arthur in America: Making Space in History for The Faerie Queene and John Dee’s Brytanici...

...: Converts, Kings, and Christian Knights in Pero Tafur’s Andanças Shayne Aaron Legassie University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina...

...Brooke Heidenreich Findley The fifteenth-century French prose romance Perceforest portrays the relationship between the king and his forests in terms of both control and intimacy. The king's legitimacy arises from his ability to civilize the forests and regulate their resources, yet in another...

...David Townsend © by Duke University Press 2004 The Naked Truth of the King’s Affection in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre David Townsend...

...Margaret L. King © by Duke University Press 2005 ...

... The Temple (1633 1709) and Its Readers Joel Swann King s College, London London, United Kingdom By the time Izaak Walton claimed in 1674 that more than Twenty thou- sand copies of The Temple had been sold in the preceding forty- one years, many responses to George Herbert s book showed how its material...

... of terms that do important work in King Lear : “take on,” “take up,” “bear,” “bear with.” These terms are all complexly associated, in late medieval and early modern discourses, with the incarnation of Christ, and with the ritual taking of Christ’s body in the Eucharist. And they are all associated...

...Jeri Smith-Cronin Writing home to King Philip III from the Spanish embassy in London on November 1, 1619, Fray Diego de la Fuente proudly declared his part in suspending a revival of Thomas Dekker’s The Whore of Babylon (1606) due to its “thousands of blasphemies against the pope and Spain.” La...

... by a striking dramatization of international “current events” performed in the same year by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. Reading John Donne's sermons at Heidelberg and the Hague alongside John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's collaborative The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt , this essay...

... the purposes of kings and their counselors. This essay traces commentators’ reticence about acknowledging the legislative purposes behind early English legislation to disputes over codification that agitated German-speaking parts of Europe in the early nineteenth century. Yet the earliest editors...

..., using the example of Mankind , this essay examines how the actor, seen as engaged in both collaborative and competitive play, can illuminate certain strategies in Shakespeare's work. Examples drawn from Richard III, Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing , and King Lear illustrate how different kinds...