Defeat roused Philip from a trance induced by Mary Stuart’s death

Evidence

The shock of defeat had awakened him from the somnambulistic trance into which he had been plunged after the death of Mary Stuart. For the rest of his reign he was again the Prudent King, cautious even to the point of what looked like timidity, hesitant, watchful, given to second thoughts, providing against every possible contingency as far as he could before leaving anything to Providence. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 883

Categorization

• XREF: Character-arc turn: pays off the earlier portrait of Philip after Mary’s execution; a plot reversal in this narrative. — connects to: The defeat jolted Philip out of a trance into renewed caution — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 883; The Armada’s defeat broke Philip’s health through anxiety — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 876
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 883

Library Connections

• The defeat jolted Philip out of a trance into renewed caution #corroborates (0.95) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 883
• The Armada’s defeat broke Philip’s health through anxiety #complicates (0.60) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 876