Plays Of Persuasion
A new book by Greg Walker on the court of Henry VIII
- Plays Of Persuasion: Drama And Politics At The Court Of Henry VIII
Greg Walker - Cambridge University Press, 1991 - xii+244pp. - £30
The interludes studied in this book seem unpromising material for the historian. None is certainly dated and half have no known author. Many of the characters are symbolic virtues or vices with names like Perseverance, Dissimulation, Merry Report and Hardy Dardy, and the lines they speak often combine platitudinous wisdom with heavy-handed comic invective. Yet Henry VIII and his courtiers found them entertaining, instructive and useful; Greg Walker explains why.
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