Prologue
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) Prologue, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Jane Grey, remembered as ‘the nine days queen’;
- Jane's ‘rebellion’ against Queen Mary - ‘rebellion of Lady Mary’ against Queen Jane;
- story of Lady Jane Grey and rebellion of 1553 - great mythic dramas of English history;
- Edward VI life, tortured by disease and Tudor medicine;
- Edward's half-sister Mary, Henry VIII's elder daughter - the Edward's ‘rightful’ heir;
- Mephistopheles, John Dudley, duke of Northumberland - Edward's chief minister;
- loyal-hearted Englishmen, winning Mary the crown - bringing down on duke's machinations;
- England's future saved - Jane and Guildford sentenced to the Tower and finally death;
- legitimist loyalty to Mary against Northumberland's loyalty to Edward VI;
- new Protestant religion conflicting with the old religion of Rome