Subjects to the king's divorce
Subtitle: equivocation, infidelity, and resistance in early modern England
By: Olga L. Valbuena.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Divorce.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Divorce -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.; Government, Resistance to, in literature.; Anti-Catholicism in literature.; Despotism in literature.; Reformation -- England.; Divorce in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Divorsive interpretation : monarchy, religious discourse, and resistance to tyranny; title: "Bind your selves by the oath" : political allegiance and infidelity in Donne's thought; title: The play "wrought with things forgotten" : history, the matriline, and equivocation in Macbeth; title: The dissenting grace : Cary's The tragedy of Mariam and resistance to tyranny; title: "If we mark the text" : "divorsive" reading and regicide in Milton's prose.