What Shakespeare’s ‘henry V’ Tells Us About Leadership, Motivation, Wooing And Hanging
She resisted demands to marry and she assiduously cultivated her image as Gloriana, a Virgin Queen wedded not to a man, but to an increasingly prosperous England. Radical Protestant reform started only with the accession of the bookish boy-king Edward VI (r.1547–53), himself an enthusiastic Protestant. Despite a West Country rising against the new Protestant Book of Popular Prayer , reform intensified under Edward’s Lord Protector, the ambitious Duke of Northumberland. Along with his minister Thomas Cromwell, Henry launched the Suppression, also personal as Dissolution, of the Monasteries (1536–40). It really looks remarkably like the robe from the 1st illustration...