Henry VII of England

describes England as a garden, this I believe was a statement that was directed toward the monarchy and the current "status" of the king, having soiled the kingship of many kings before him. The great folly of man has always been him seeing himself as "God" on earth, and thusly acting in the, "interest of God", when in reality he is justifying his own gain by these means. John of Gaunt in Scene 2, Act 1, speaks of England by saying in part, …"This blessed plot, this earth, this England, this…

Charles I dissolved Parliament 3 times within the first 4 years of his reign, and disregarded any advice given to him. Parliament decided that enough was enough and England was heading on a path that only went downhill. They presented Charles with the Petition of Right. The Petition of Right was a limit on the king’s overall power, and angered Charles immensely. Charles sparked the Civil War by sending an army to a Parliament…

In 1215, The Magna Carta was brought up in a field in England known as Runnymede. The Magna Carta was a charter that was targeted against the deranged king of England at the time, King John. The Archbishop of Canterbury wrote up the charter to make peace between King John and barons who despised him. Dan Jones explains the history of King John and the Magna Carta in an article he had wrote for the Smithsonian. In his article, “The Mad King and Magna Carta,” the author Dan Jones begins with a…

In 1598, Henry IV signed the Edict of Nantes, a document that put a temporary end to major religious wars between the Catholics and Protestants. The document granted Huguenots religious tolerance and some more political and social equality(Cavendish), although King…

Ben Jonson wrote Shakespeare “was not of an age, but for all time,” indicating how 21st century ideas and themes can be connected through the centuries to the time when 1 Henry IV was written. For instance, a contemporary issue demonstrated in the play is a phenomenon known as helicopter parenting. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, helicopter parenting is when a parent is extremely involved in a child’s life (“Helicopter Parenting”). Parents will often place expectations on their…

One of most drawn out themes underlying Shakespeare’s second tetralogy is the idea of authenticity; who is authentic, who is not, what is means to be authentic. On the flip side is the opposite notion—the idea of a counterfeit, an inauthentic imitation, sometimes able to fool, sometimes not. However, Shakespeare’s second tetralogy seems to blur this supposed line between what is authentic and what is counterfeit, and in doing so reveals not simply what makes an “authentic” king, but also how…

planting false information into someone’s mind like Iago in Othello, who manipulated the title character to kill his wife. Even so, there are times when the rhetoric fails and so did the characters that gave them. In the plays The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part One, and Julius Caesar, as each rhetoric tries to convince characters in the play to do things, Shakespeare shows how words used in rhetorics can change a person or thing entirely. In As You Like It, the play is centered on the…

Nataly Oliver Mrs. Gawith English 1 26 January 2016 Mary Queen of Scots withheld the throne of Scotland at a young age but grew up having troubles being the right queen. When Mary Queen had been born she had to take a big part of the family. “She was born at Linlithgrow Palace, West Lothian on 8 December 1542” (Mary Queen of Scots Biography). “Mary became Queen of Scots when she was six days old.” (The official website of the British Monarchy). “She was the daughter of King James V of…

However, in 745, Carloman, the leading brother, after everything he had done to help with the revival of the Church, retired to a monastery to live out his days as a monk in Italy. This move by Carloman still puzzles historians. Carloman held the larger portion of the kingdom as Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia and also had helped to start the revival of the Frankish Church. Nonetheless, he left all of it behind and helped to found a monastery in Monte Soratte and later Monte Cassino. Moore…

astonishing accomplishments during her reign, and her stunning bravery that is very inspiring. To start off with, Elizabeth’s life did not start out very well. She was born September 7, 1553 in Greenwich England. Her birth could be the most disappointing thing in her father’s life. Elizabeth’s parents were Henry VIII and Anne Boelyn. Her mother got executed when Elizabeth was two years old. Her father got married very quickly after that to Jane Seymour. Her father also ended up dying. Elizabeth…