“Presume not that I am the thing I was”: 
The Transformation of the Idea of the King and 
the Concept of Kingship in Shakespeare’s Henriad

From 1584 to 1599, Shakespeare wrote two tetralogies of history plays covering the period from the reign of Richard II to Henry VII. As Elizabeth’s age (she was fifty-seven in 1590), her problematic right to the crown, and the fact that the crown would pass to the Stuart dynasty, whose Catholic memb...

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Main Author: Meriç Tutku Özmen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The English Language and Literature Research Association of Türkiye 2023-10-01
Series:Ideas: Journal of English Literary Studies
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/2561632
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