“A Virgine and a Martyr both”: The Turn to Hagiography in Heywood’s Reformation History Play

By Gina M. Di Salvo

This article considers the narrative and theatrical strategies used by Thomas Heywood to sanctify Elizabeth I as a virgin martyr saint in the remarkable, yet understudied, Reformation history play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I, or the…

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