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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      16 February 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511483875
      9780521854054
      9780521117326
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483875
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 340 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 340 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
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    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
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    For writers in the early modern period, thinking about royal favorites inevitably meant thinking about the uneasy intersection of the personal and the public in a political system traditionally organized around patronage and intimacy. Depictions of favoritism - in a variety of texts including plays, poems, libels, and pamphlets - explore the most fundamental ideological questions concerning personal monarchy and the early modern public sphere, questions about the nature and limits of prerogative and about the enfranchisement or otherwise of subjects. In this study, Curtis Perry examines the ideological underpinnings of the heated controversies surrounding powerful royal favorites and the idea of favoritism in the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Perry argues that the discourse of corrupt favoritism is this period's most important unofficial vehicle for exploring constitutional unease concerning the nature and limits of personal monarchy within the balanced English constitution.

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    "This welcome book will be particularly valuable for those pursuing study of the literature, politics and cultural history of early modern England."
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    "Perry's approach is well-argued, comprehensive, and fascinating first to last. This is an excellent book...His examples are excellent, and he always keeps us on his point...It is quite outstanding"
    Michael Denbo, Renaissance Quarterly

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