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- Title
“A Virgine and a Martyr both”: The Turn to Hagiography in Heywood’s Reformation History Play.
- Authors
DI SALVO, GINA M.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
IF You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody (Play); HEYWOOD, Thomas, d. 1641; ELIZABETH I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, in literature; EARLY modern English drama -- History &; criticism; FOXE'S Book of Martyrs (Book); FOXE, John, 1516-1587; REFORMATION in literature; VIRGINS in literature; LITERARY sources
- Publication
Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 4, p133
- ISSN
0034-429X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7202/1061917ar