"A Virgine and a Martyr both": The Turn to Hagiography in Heywood’s Reformation History Play
This article considers the narrative and theatrical strategies used by Thomas Heywood to sanctify Elizabeth I as a virgin martyr saint in the remarkable, yet understudied, Reformation history play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth (ca. 1605). I examine h...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Iter Press
2018
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Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2018, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 133-167 |
IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KCD Hagiography; saints KDE Anglican Church |
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Summary: | This article considers the narrative and theatrical strategies used by Thomas Heywood to sanctify Elizabeth I as a virgin martyr saint in the remarkable, yet understudied, Reformation history play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth (ca. 1605). I examine how Heywood reads against Foxe even as he draws on the history of the English Reformation from the Book of Martyrs to create a narrative of virgin martyrdom; I discuss how the play’s miraculous theatricality re-forms past iterations of religious knowledge in drama, and show that the play recovers hagiography for English Protestantism. I conclude by suggesting that Heywood invented the Stuart saint play. |
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ISSN: | 2293-7374 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Renaissance and reformation
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7202/1061917ar |