Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England

by Curtis Perry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521117321
• ISBN13: 9780521117326
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"