Doubtful and dangerous (eBook, ePUB)

The question of succession in late Elizabethan England
Redaktion: Doran, Susan; Kewes, Paulina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long commanded scholarly attention, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies the situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession. The essays also reveal how the issue affected court politics, lay at the heart of religious disputes, stimulated constitutional innovation, and shaped foreign relations. By situating the topic within its historiographical and chronological contexts, the editors offer a novel account of the whole reign.

Interdisciplinary in scope and spanning the crucial transition from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the book will be indispensable to scholars and students of early modern British and Irish history, literature and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847799302
• Artikelnr.: 57471484

Autorenporträt

Susan Doran is a Senior Research Fellow in History at Jesus College, Oxford Paulina Kewes is a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Contexts and approaches 1. Introduction: A historiographical
perspective - Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes 2. The earlier Elizabethan
succession question revisited - Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes Part II:
Religion and politics 3. The Puritan, the Jesuit and the Jacobean
succession - Paulina Kewes 4. Taking it to the street? The Archpriest
controversy and the issue of the succession - Peter Lake and Michael
Questier 5. Bishop Richard Bancroft and the succession - Patrick Collinson
Part III: The court 6. Essex and the 'popish plot' - Alexandra Gajda 7. The
Scottish King and the English court: the secret correspondence of James VI,
1601-3 - Alexander Courtney Part IV: Imaginative writings and the wider
public world 8. The succession in sermons, news and rumour - Arnold Hunt 9.
Hamlet and succession - Richard Dutton 10. The poetics of succession,
1587-1605: the Stuart claim - Richard A. McCabe Part V: Britain and beyond
11. Polemic and prejudice: a Scottish king for an English throne - Susan
Doran 12. Brinkmanship and bad luck: Ireland, the Nine Years' War and the
succession - Rory Rapple 13. A view from abroad: continental powers and the
succession - Thomas M. McCoog, SJ 14. States, monarchs and dynastic
transitions: the political thought of John Hayward - R. Malcolm Smuts
Afterword - Blair Worden Select Bibliography Index