"If a man who thinks he is a king is mad," Jacques Lacan wrote, "a king who thinks he is a king is no less so".
Cranmer accepted a commission to write a propaganda treatise in the king's interest, stating the course he proposed and defending it by arguments from Scripture, the Fathers, and the decrees of general councils.
Theater at St. Clements, 423 West 46th Street, (212) 352-3101, redbulltheater.com.20100218 'EQUIVOCATION' In previews; opens on March 2. Bill Cain's new play imagines Shakespeare facing a crisis of conscience when asked by the king to write a piece of propaganda about the Gunpowder Plot.
After the overthrow of Napoleon's dominion by allied troops at the Battle of Leipzig (1813), Goethe, who had conspicuously failed to share in the nationalist fervour of the German Wars of Liberation, was asked to write a festival play for the king of Prussia to celebrate the allies' achievement.
On the very next day, Cranmer wrote a letter to the king expressing his doubts about the queen's guilt, highlighting his own esteem for Anne.
After Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh resigned last week, after just six months, the king wrote a letter to him expressing frustration that legislation for elections had not been completed, despite his intent to hold municipal and parliamentary elections before the end of the year.
Cromwell wrote a letter to the king in support of the new Lutheran mission.
even this guy wrote a book maligning the king of the sexual jungle's decline.
However, as Cranmer had done for Anne Boleyn, he wrote a letter to the king defending the past work of Cromwell.
To pass the time in prison, Noi wrote a letter to the king of Thailand every day.
