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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 73
IS  - 1-2
T2  - Shakespeare Quarterly
SP  - 121-45
ID  - bbbm26
T1  - "'And golden vizards on their faces': Theatrical Awakening in All Is True"
AU  - Schreyer, Kurt
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Examines significance of golden masks from Katherine’s vision in 4.2 of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s All Is True (Henry VIII). Contextualizes use gilt masks within English medieval drama and pageantry, where gilt masks were first used to represent God the Father and Jesus and later had their meanings revised to mean distortion of both human and Godly presence. Argues Fletcher and Shakespeare incorporate both meanings golden masks to disrupt traditional temporalities and historicism, evidenced by play’s “exposing the fraudulence of Archbishop Cranmer’s famous prophecy in the play’s final scene as well as Henry’s futile adherence to genealogical succession and chronological linearity.”
ER  -