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Henry Viii's Divorce »

Authors: J. Christopher Warner
ISBN-13: 9780851156422, ISBN-10: 0851156428
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: December 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: J. Christopher Warner

Book Synopsis

A close examination of the rivalry between two printing presses at the time of the divorce crisis shows how the new learning could be employed to influence even the king himself.

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	A Note on Texts
	Introduction: Representing Henry VIII: The Rhetoric of "Reticent Delicacy"	1
1	"Where the word of a king is": Dialogues Printed by Thomas Berthelet, 1530-1532	27
2	Thomas More, The King's Orator	47
3	Thomas Starkey, Thomas Elyot, and Henry VIII's Republic of Letters	63
4	Competition Between Printers and the Business of Representing the King	83
5	Keeping the Faith and Keeping the Peace: Henry VIII's Divorce and his Obligations as a Christian Prince	89
6	Re-Staging Henry VIII: Skelton's Magnificence and Heywood's The Play of the Weather in 1530 and 1533	112
	Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Supremacy	133
	Bibliography	145
	Index	158