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The Mirror for Magistrates is a collection of English poems from the Tudor period by various authors which retell the lives and the tragic ends of various historical figures.

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The Mirror for Magistrates

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The Mirror for Magistrates is a collection of English poems from the Tudor period by various authors which retell the lives and the tragic ends of various...

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Thomas Blenerhasset

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the original Mirror for Magistrates, on legends set in earlier history, and was entitled The First Parte of the Mirror for Magistrates, and was reprinted...

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Shakespearean tragedy

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Historia regium Britanniae c. 1135, and then in John Higgins' poem The Mirror for Magistrates in 1574, as well as appearing in Holinshed's Chronicles in 1587...

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Henry VI of England

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verse appears in William Baldwin's 1559 work The Mirror for Magistrates, a collection of poems written from the perspective of historical figures. Kingdoms...

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The Fall of Princes

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legendary persons. A sixteenth-century poem The Mirror for Magistrates by various authors is a sequel to The Fall of Princes. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911)...

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Nennius of Britain

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foreign invasion". In the Parts Added to The Mirror for Magistrates, Nennius gives speech accusing Caesar of cheating by poisoning the sword-tip to deal him...

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Iambic pentameter

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of the modern types of variation. Thomas Sackville, in his two poems in the Mirror for Magistrates, used a similar line but with few caesuras. The result...

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Leir of Britain

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with Leir's restoration to power. The story also appears in John Higgins's Mirror for Magistrates, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and other works....

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King Lear

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are the anonymous play King Leir (published in 1605); The Mirror for Magistrates (1574), by John Higgins; The Malcontent (1604), by John Marston; The London...

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Speculum literature

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oft-republished A Mirror for Magistrates (1559); and in The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul, a manuscript translation from the French by the young Queen...

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Gonorrhea

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2 November 2012. Higgins J (1587). The Mirror for Magistrates. as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary entry for "clap". Bender M (1898). "Ueber neuere...

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Rhyme royal

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Sackville (in the Induction to The Mirror for Magistrates), Alexander Barclay (The Ship of Fools), William Dunbar (The Thrissil and the Rois) and David...

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Elizabethan literature

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to The Mirror for Magistrates, were highly regarded (and therefore "in the canon") but they were omitted from the anthology as non-lyric. In the 20th...

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Jane Shore

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her in Mirror for Magistrates. Anthony Chute's 1593 poem "Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's wife" is supposed to be the lament of...

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Reach plc

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Westminster Magistrates' Court. On 13 February 2015, Trinity Mirror published a public apology to "all its victims of phone hacking" on page two of the Daily...

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King Leir

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Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, The Mirror for Magistrates, William Warner's Albion's England, and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. In turn, critics...

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Shakespearean history

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usurper, which The Mirror for Magistrates allowed". Because Henry Tudor prayed before Bosworth Field to be God's minister of punishment, won the battle and...

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Quotation marks in English

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Marks. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-88179-132-7. Higgins, John (1587). The Mirror for Magistrates. Truss, Lynne (2003). Eats, Shoots & Leaves. p. 151. ISBN 1-59240-087-6...

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George Ferrers

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he is best remembered for his contributions to The Mirror for Magistrates. He apparently wrote plays for court performance, and was particularly praised...

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Gypsy Lore

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is an adaptation of King Lear. The film was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not...

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Heroic verse

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(1561), portions of The Mirror for Magistrates (1559-1610), Tamburlaine (c. 1587), Astrophel and Stella (1580s, published 1591), and The Faerie Queene (1590-1596)...

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Vision of Lear

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of the City of Munich for its 1998 Munich Biennale. The libretto was written in English by Tadashi Suzuki, based on Shakespeare's play King Lear. The opera...

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Thomas Churchyard

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England. He is not to be identified with the "T.C." who wrote for the Mirror for Magistrates (ed. 1559), "How the Lord Mowbray ... was banished ... and after...

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