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: Heywood,
: Browse the introduction to
Rowland’s edition. Rowland sums up the reason we are reading this play in a
course on London:
(Rowland, Introduction
12).
: Rowland, Howard, Lander, Wall, and Corrigan. There
are few critical articles on
then thou knows nobody(1.2.121). The tanner gains by refusing the King’s flattery and entreaties to accompany him to Court. How does this resistance increase the bond between King and subject? Is permissible opportunity for a provincial tanner treason for a citizen of London? (
the flower of London for her beauty(1.4.41), and quickly goes on to taunt Shore that he will be sleeping in his bed with his wife that night. Conversely, Edward describes Jane as
[a] bright twinkling spark of precious diamond, of greater value than all India(1.17.31-32). Does Heywood appear to be sympathetic to Falconbridge over Edward? What is implied by the way in which Edward reduces Jane to a material object of great value? Finally, is it possible that Jane is accepted back into the City of London following Edward’s death and Gloucester’s ascension to the throne only because of her ultimate ability to convince Edward to free Stranguidge and her old husband (as well as her ability to settle Mistress Bladge’s land dispute with the King)? (
God bless the princes, if it be his will. I do not like these villains(2.16.30-31). How does Shore’s protection of royal interests here reflect negatively on Edward’s behaviour towards the city, especially when he makes Shore’s wife his mistress? Further, how does Shore’s disguising himself as Flood mirror Edward’s disguise as the butler Ned when the King decides to go slumming in the city? (