Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Henri IV King of France
Standard Name: Henri IV,, King of France
Used Form: Henri Quatre
Used Form: Henry of Navarre
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Marguerite de Navarre | She was grandmother to another king of France, Henri IV
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand
of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing... |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | The title-page quotes Edward Young
on the dangers, for a woman, of love. An Advertisement calls the author only an editor of a French original, but says so many changes have been made that little... |
| Performance of text | Catherine Gore | CG
, still resident in Paris, had another play open in London: The King's Seal at Drury Lane
, featuring the French monarch Henri IV
. |
| Reception | Charlotte Lennox | Reviews were excellent, partly on account of the interest of the subject-matter (which Catherine Talbot
for one had found riveting). Johnson
in the Literary Review explicitly praised the style as well. Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 149-50 |
| Textual Features | Anne Dowriche | It deals with topical news: the murder by a friar or monk of the French king, Henri III
. Henri died on 2 August 1589 after being attacked the previous day. He had previously, under... |
| Textual Features | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | This novel was suggested by my reading the Memoirs of the Duc de Sully [translated by Charlotte Lennox
] and falling very much in love with Henri IV
. qtd. in Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 39 |
| Textual Features | Anne Dowriche | AD
's chosen metre, poulter's measure, consists of alexandrines (lines of twelve syllables or six feet) alternating with lines of fourteen syllables or seven feet). She embroiders her prose sources with invented speeches for her... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | The selection included here covered Sully's time as ambassador to England, during which he hoped to gain support for Henri IV
's dream of a senate or council of Europe. Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 4: 409-10 |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
published her historical biography Henrietta Maria: it opens dramatically, its first chapter relating the murder of the baby Henriette-Marie's father, Henri IV
, by François Ravaillac
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Lucy Aikin
said that at the time of her death EOB
was planning to write a comparable volume of memoirs of the time of Henri IV of France
(the former champion of Protestants who converted... |
| Textual Production | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
published her translated Specimens of the Early Poetry of France from the Time of the Troubadours and the Trouvères to the Reign of Henri Quatre. Athenæum. J. Lection. 394 (1835): 369 |
| Textual Production | Louisa Stuart Costello | LSC
followed up these works with a second historical novel, Gabrielle; or, Pictures of a Reign, published in 1843, and a third travel narrative, Béarn and the Pyrenees: A Legendary Tour to the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eleanor Sleath | The second volume opens with the story of La Roque, who eventally turns out to be Laurette's grandfather, Conte della Croissa (though he later reappears as a monk, Father Andrea), and represents benevolent patriarchal power... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Pearson | Several poems treat events in history: not only Henry II
of England but also the Protestant Henri IV of France
. The latter's victory over the Catholic League at the battle of Ivry in 1590... |
Timeline
25 July 1593: Henri IV of France converted from Protestantism...
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25 July 1593
Henri IV
of France converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1610: The assassination of Henri IV of France left...
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1610
The assassination of Henri IV
of France left his widow, Marie de Medici
, ruling as Regent for her young son, Louis XIII
.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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