ABSTRACT

This chapter connects existing scholarly work on other plays on the list, and brings in evidence from Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP). It proposes a complete title for the play, discusses its possible sources in Spanish history, and address new questions of its date, company provenance, and even authorship. In Mayerne's work, finally, there are further examples of Henry's sobriquet in use, useful here because the existence and currency of that sobriquet underpins the whole argument offered here. However, it searches a large and indicative corpus of material, and the fact that it finds occurrences of this phrase and none of any rivals is, at the moment and with these provisos, convincing. One can even start to assemble a dramatis personae for Henry the Una. It can hardly have done without a King Henry, and a Joan, a strong female lead intriguingly balanced somewhere between a rape victim and a sexual temptress.