Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories

Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Former library stamp on the edge. Frische und saubere Hardcover-Kopie in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Ehemaliger Bibliotheksstempel am Rand. Contents - Introduction - One. Contemporary Accounts of Fifteenth-Century England - I. The Lancaster Myth - The Justification of Richard�s Overthrow - The Minority Report of the French Chroniclers - The Further Dealings of Divine Providence with Henry IV - Henry V, Soldier of God - II. The York Myth - Yorkist Reviews of the Lancastrian Regimes - The Emergence of the House of York - Providential Vicissitudes under the Sun of York - III. The Tudor Myth - The Providential Interchange of Richard III and Henry VII - The Report of the Court Poets - Two. The Syntheses of the Sixteenth-Century Prose - Chroniclers - IV. Polydore Vergil - The Lancastrian Usurpation - The Fall of the House of Lancaster - The Punishment of the House of York - Richard III and Henry VII - V. Edward Hall - The Establishing of the Lancastrian Line - The Troublous Season of Henry VI - More�s History of Richard III - The Tudor Myth in Hall - VI. Raphael Holinshed and Abraham Fleming - The Fall of Richard II and the Rise of the Lancastrians - The Downfall of Lancaster - The Fall of the House of York - Three. The Views of the Elizabethan Poets - VIL A Mirror for Magistrates - The Fall of Richard II and the Reign of Lancaster - The Misfortunes of Lancaster and York 171 - VIII. Daniel�s Civil Wars - Providence and Henry IV - The Triumph of the House of York - IX. Shakespeare�s Double Tetralogy - Richard II - I Henry IV - Il Henry IV - Henry V - I Henry VI - II Henry VI - III Henry VI - Richard HI - X. Conclusion - Appendices - A. Extracts from the early (Lancastrian) version of John Hardyng�s �Chronicle� - B. Dedicatory epistle for Pietro Carmeliano�s versified life of St. Catherine of Alexandria - C. Pietro Carmeliano, Epistle to England urging her to rejoice over the end of the civil wars and the birth of Prince Arthur - D. Canceled portion of Polydore Vergil�s Anglica historia dealing with the death of the Duke of Clarence - Bibliography - Index - Genealogical Chart: The Divided Royal Family in the Fifteenth Century - Opening pages of Pietro Carmeliano, Epistle to England ISBN 674912306

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