King John (Mis)Remembered

Tracing the story of King John’s enshrinement as a villain in cultural memory, Igor Djordjevic focuses on the relationship of poet-playwrights Michael Drayton and Anthony Munday with John Stow, antiquarian discoverer and disseminator of the Chronicle of Dunmow; and the relationship of all three with the Lord Admiral’s Men. Djordjevic follows the cultural ripples of their collaboration to the end of the seventeenth century, revealing profound repercussions for a nation’s cultural memory.