Shakespeare after Theory. David Scott KastanPracticing New Historicism. Catherine Gallagher , Stephen Greenblatt
king, and Surrey was doomed. All that remained was to find a pretext to bring him to trial. This was found by Lord Chancellor Wriothesley, fittingly from a line of heralds. Surrey was accused of misusing the signs of honor: he had commissioned both a coat of arms and a portrait calling attention to his own royal antecedents, and these were threats to the monarchy. Treason was easily constructed in Henrician England, of course, but as Sessions's carefully argued text shows, Surrey's view of the role of the aristocracy was incompatible with the new concept of monarchy, and therefore he was as much a traitor as the aristocratic rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace. * ROBERT C. BRADDOCK Saginaw Valley State University