"'And golden vizards on their faces': Theatrical Awakening in All Is True"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm26/
Author:
	Schreyer, Kurt.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Quarterly 73, no. 1-2 (2022): 121–45.
Annotation:
	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.”
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Henry VIII, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm26