Henry VIII and History

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction 
All is True – Henry VIII In and Out of History......Page 14
1 Harry’s Peregrinations: An Italianate Defence of Henry VIII......Page 34
2 From Perfect Prince to ‘Wise and Pollitike’ King......Page 64
3 ‘It is perillous stryvinge withe princes’......Page 78
4 Hands Defiled with Blood: 
Henry VIII in Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs’......Page 100
5 Fallen Prince and Pretender of the Faith......Page 132
6 ‘It is unpossible to draw his Picture well who hath severall countenances’:......Page 148
7 Henry VIII in History......Page 164
8 ‘Unblushing Falsehood’......Page 178
9 Ford Madox Ford’s Fifth Queen and the Modernity of Henry VIII......Page 192
10 The ‘Sexual Everyman’? Maxwell Anderson’s Henry VIII......Page 208
11 Drama King......Page 220
12 ‘Anne taught him how to be cruel’......Page 236
13 Booby, Baby or Classical Monster?......Page 254
14 Through the Eyes of a Fool......Page 274
Index......Page 288