Subjects to the King's Divorce Equivocation, infidelity and resistance to early modern England
Focusing on the rhetorical aftermath and political consequences of Henry VIII's double divorce from Katherine of Aragon and from the Church of Rome, this book understands divorce as both culturally powerful and an instrument for examining division in early modern England.
Print Book, English, 2003
Indiana Univeristy Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2003
247p. 25cm.
9780253341143, 0253341140
1327896115
Preliminary Table of Contents: List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Double Divorce and its Interpretive Aftermath1. Divorcise Acts: Monarchy, Infidelity, and Self-Division2. Allegiance, Infidelity, and Casuistry in John Donne's Thought3. "Wrought with things forgotten": History, the Matriline, and Equivocation in Macbeth4. Dissenting Grace: Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam and Catholic Resistance5. John Milton-I: Of Divorce and Regicide6. John Milton-II: Midrash and Divorcise ThinkingNotesBibliographyIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index