A companion to Margaret More Roper studies : life records, essential texts, and critical essays /

“…Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547.…”
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Bold conscience : Luther to Shakespeare to Milton / by Held, Joshua Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Conscience in Luther and Henry VIII -- 2. Shakespearean Consciences: Hamlet in Wittenberg -- 3. …”
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Shakespeare's workmanship / by Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863-1944

Table of Contents: “…--Pericles and King Henry VIII.--Cymbeline.--The winter's tale.--The tempest.…”

Empire and nation in early English Renaissance literature / by Mottram, Stewart James

Table of Contents: “…England's empire apart: the entry of Charles V and Henry VIII (1522) -- Royal supremacy and the rhetoric of empire: Anne Boleyn's 1533 entry -- Richard Morison: rebellion and the rhetoric of nationhood -- Enter England: John Bale's King Johan -- Commonwealth in crisis: Nicholas Udall's Respublica.…”
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Lives of girls and women from the Islamic world in early modern British literature and culture / by Andrea, Bernadette Diane

Table of Contents: “…Tracing the lives of girls and women from the Islamic world in British literature and culture, c. 1500-1630 -- The "presences of women" from the Islamic world in late medieval Scotland and early modern England -- The Islamic world and the construction of early modern Englishwomen's authorship : Queen Elizabeth I, the Tartar girl, and the Tartar-Indian woman -- The Islamic world and the construction of early modern Englishwomen's authorship : Lady Mary Wroth, the Tartar-Persian princess, and the Tartar king -- Signifying gender and Islam in early Shakespeare : Henry VIII or All is true (1613) and British "Masques of blackness" -- The intersecting paths of two women from the Islamic world : Teresa Sampsonia, Mariam Khanim, and the East India Company.…”
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Gender, authorship, and early modern women's collaboration /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: gender, authorship, and early modern women's collaboration / Patricia Pender and Alexandra Day -- Katherine Parr, Henry VIII, and royal literary collaboration / Micheline White -- Collaboration in the Parliamentary speeches of Queen Elizabeth I / Leah S. …”

The power of laughter and satire in early modern Britain : political and religious culture, 1500-1820 /

Table of Contents: “…Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain 1500-1800 -- 1 Dissolving into Laughter: Anti-Monastic Satire in the Reign of Henry VIII -- 2 Mocking or Mirthful? Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue -- 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England -- 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church -- 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England -- 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Polly -- 7 'Laughing a Folly out of Countenance': Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire -- 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797-1805 -- 9 'Was a laugh treason?' …”
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Trials of authorship : anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare / by Crewe, Jonathan V.

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