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McCoy_FM 4/10/02 3:44 PM Page i Alterations of State McCoy_FM 4/10/02 3:44 PM Page ii This page intentionally left blank McCoy_FM 4/10/02 3:44 PM Page iii Alterations of State       Richard C. McCoy      McCoy_FM 4/10/02 3:44 PM Page iv Columbia University Press Publishers Since  New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCoy, Richard C., – Alterations of state : sacred kingship in the English Reformation / Richard C. McCoy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–––(cloth) . English literature—Early modern, –—History and criticism. . Kings and rulers in literature. . Christianity and literature—Great Britain— History—th century. . Christianity and literature—Great Britain—History— th century. . Kings and rulers—Religious aspects—Christianity. . Politics and literature—Great Britain—History. . Church and state in literature. . State, The, in literature. . Holy, The, in literature. . Monarchy in literature. I. Title. PR.K M  .'—dc  Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Designed by Chang Jae Lee Printed in the United States of America c Parts of chapter first appeared in the article “A Wedding and Four Funerals: Conjunction and Commemoration in Hamlet,”Shakespeare Survey,, copyright Cambridge University Press. Reproduced with permission. McCoy_FM 4/10/02 3:44 PM Page v To Sarah, who waited even longer This page intentionally left blank McCoy_FM 4/10/02 3:44 PM Page vii Contents       . Real Presence to Royal Presence  . Sacred Space: John Skelton and Westminster’s Royal Sepulcher  . Rites of Memory: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Compromise  . Idolizing Kings: John Milton and Stuart Rule  . Sacramental to Sentimental: Andrew Marvell and the Restoration      This page intentionally left blank McCoy_FM 4/10/02 3:44 PM Page ix Preface What an Earth-quake is the Alteration of a State! —Thomas Dekker, The Wonderful Year()   Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, frontispiece By permission ofthe British Library; .K.

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Traditional notions of sacred kingship became both more grandiose and more problematic during England's turbulent sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reformation launched by Henry VIII and his claims for royal supremacy and divine right rule led to the suppression of the Mass, as the host and c
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