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The reign of Elizabeth I, court and culture in the last decade, edited by John Guy

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The reign of Elizabeth I, court and culture in the last decade, edited by John Guy

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The reign of Elizabeth I

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

697474492

Responsibility statement

edited by John Guy

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

court and culture in the last decade

Summary

This book is about the politics and political culture of the 'last decade' of the reign of Elizabeth I, in effect the years 1585 to 1603. It argues that this period was so distinctive that it amounted to the second of two 'reigns'. It also invites readers, at times provocatively, to take a critical look at the declining Virgin Queen. Many teachers and their students have failed to consider the 'last decade' in its own right, or have ignored it, having begun their accounts in 1558 and struggled on to the defeat of the Armada in 1588. Only two major political surveys have been attempted since 1926. Both consider mainly the war with Spain and the politics of war, and each allots inadequate space to Crown patronage, puritanism and religion, society and the economy, political thought, and literature and drama. This book, written by some of the leading scholars of their generation, will be indispensable to a fuller understanding of the age.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction : The 1590s : the second reign of Elizabeth I? / John Guy -- The patronage of the crown in Elizabethan politics : the 1590s in perspective / Simon Adams -- Regnum Cecilianum? : a Cecilian perspective of the court / Natalie Mears -- Patronage at court, faction and the earl of Essex / Paul E.J. Hammer -- Peers, patronage and the politics of history / Linda Levy Peck -- The fall of Sir John Perrot / Hiram Morgan -- The Elizabethan establishment and the ecclesiastical polity / John Guy -- Ecclesiastical vitriol : religious satire in the 1590s and the invention of puritanism / Patrick Collinson -- Ecclesiastical vitriol : the kirk, the puritans and the future king of England / Jenny Wormald -- Social strain and social dislocation, 1585-1603 / Jim Sharpe -- Lord of liberty : Francis Davison and the cult of Elizabeth / Richard C. McCoy -- The complaint of poetry for the death of liberality : the decline of literary patronage in the 1590s / Alistair Fox -- Summer's last will and testament : revels' end / Marie Axton -- The theatre and the Court in the 1590s / Fritz Levy

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