Divinity and State

David Womersley was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is currently the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. His publications include The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin, 1994) and Gibbon and the Watchmen of the Holy City: the Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815 (Oxford, 2002). He has edited Edmund Burke's Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Penguin, 1998), Restoration Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000), Cultures of Whiggism (University of Delaware Press, 2005), Literary Milieux (University of Delaware Press, 2008), and Boswell's Life of Johnson (Penguin, 2008). His current projects include a biography of Gibbon (for Yale University Press), and monographs provisionally entitled Literary Whiggism 1680-1730 and English Literature and Colonial Tension, 1765-88.

• I: CHRONICLES OF REFORM ; 1. Fabyan's Chronicle: Reading and Religion Reformed ; 2. More's Richard III: Revision and Reformation ; 3. Cooper and Crowley: Continuation and Controversy ; 4. Grafton and Stow: Schism and Technique ; 5. Versions of Henry V: The Gravity of Foxe ; II: DIVINITY AND STATE ON STAGE ; 6. Reformation and Riposte: Kynge Johan and Respublica ; 7. Sanctified Monarchs: The Massacre at Paris, Edward III, When You See Me You Know Me, and 1 and 2 If You Know Not Me ; 8. Martyred Subjects: Martyred Subjects: Woodstock, The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, 1 and 2 Edward IV, and The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell ; III: DIVINITY, STATE, AND SHAKESPEARE ; 9. Shakespearean Apocalypse : 1-3 Henry VI ; 10. Three Experiments with the Shape of Time: Richard III, King John, and Richard II ; 11. The History Play Reformed: 1 and 2 Henry IV, and Henry V ; IV: CONCLUSION ; 12. Riposte as Corroboration: 1 and 2 Robert Earle of Hvntington and 1 Sir John Oldcastle

immensely learned, closely argued, and beautifully written ... offers innumerable rewards for the patient reader who appreciates Womersley's subtlety of argumentation as well as the generous number of bold, bracing claims to be found in these pages ... [it] will be an influential book for years to come. It is an indispensable study for all who are concerned with how literary and historical texts negotiated the perilous waters of confessional conflict in early-modern England.