King Æthelred II

Standard Name: Æthelred II, King
Used Form: Ethelred the Unready

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Hawkshaw
The sonnets begin with the arrival of human beings on the lands that became Great Britain and wend their way through history, moving through treatments of the English kings including Alfred the Great and Ethelred the Unready
Textual Features Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The first volume packs in many historical or semi-historical events. Earl Godwin murders Ethelred 's son Alfred Ætheling at Guildford Castle; Henry I 's only legitimate son and heir dies by drowning in 1120...
Literary Setting Anna Maria Mackenzie
The title-page quotes lines from Thomas Otway about a massacre of children by soldiers; chapter one quotes Milton on the torments of a bad conscience. The story is set in the tenth and eleventh centuries...
Literary responses Anna Maria Mackenzie
The Critical found the book in general both insipid and improbable. While assuming it was right to portray Etheldred as contemptible, it insisted that Guiderius should not have been the only respectable Englishman.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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