Reading Tudor Writing Politically: The Case of 2 Henry IV

Author: Burrow, Colin1

Source: The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, 1 July 2008 , pp. 234-250(17)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

The first section presents a schematic model of early modern citizenship, which emphasizes the multiple dispersed centres of authority and allegiance of which members of the Tudor commonwealth would be aware. It argues that political readings of texts from this period should take more account than they have in the past of the large number of synchronic and diachronic relationships inhabited by early modern agents and writers. The second section relates this model to the Gloucestershire scenes in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV, and shows how the scenes register anxieties about the conduct of justices in that county in the 1590s from the perspective of both commons and Privy Council.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of Oxford

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