Shakespeare Studies, January 1st, 2006
BURN ALL THE RECORDS of the realm." (1) All the commentators of Part Two of Henry VI have acknowledged that one of the main features attributed by Shakespeare to Cade's rebellion as it is staged in the play is the violent hatred for any form, any presence, any use of the written word. The "reformation" of the realm desired by the Kentish people and their captain, which is characterized by Holinshed's Chronicle as "the punishing and reforming of the misdemaenors of [the King and the Queen's] bad counselors, that neither fifteens [a property tax] should hereafter be demanded nor once any impos...
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