Doubtful and dangerous : the question of succession in late Elizabethan England / edited by Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doran, Susan, editor.

Kewes, Paulina, editor.

Series:

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Succession.

Great Britain.

Kings and rulers.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1558-1603.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan ; Vancouver, BC : Distributed in Canada exclusively by UBC Press.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 captured the interest of historians and literary scholars, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies this situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts -literary, political and polemical - cannot he understood without reference to the succession. The essays also reveal how the issue affected court politics, lay at the heart of religious disputes (notably the Archpriest controversy), stimulated constitutional innovation, and shaped archipelagic and continental relationships. By situating the topic within its historiographical and chronological contexts, the editors offer a revised account of the whole reign, challenging many established interpretations. The book brings together scholars from the fields of literature and history working in England and the US. Most are distinguished academics, such as Patrick Collinson whose last work is published here; others are younger scholars who are already making their mark on early modern studies. 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, religion, and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Contexts and approaches

1 Introduction: a historiographical perspective / Susan Doran Doran, Susan, Paulina Kewes Kewes, Paulina 3

2 The earlier Elizabethan succession question revisited / Susan Doran Doran, Susan, Paulina Kewes Kewes, Paulina 20

Part II Religion and politics

3 The Puritan, the Jesuit and the Jacobean succession / Paulina Kewes Kewes, Paulina 47

4 Taking it to the street? The Archpriest controversy and the issue of the succession / Peter Lake Lake, Peter, Michael Questier Questier, Michael 71

5 Bishop Richard Bancroft and the succession / Patrick Collinson Collinson, Patrick 92

Part III The court

6 Essex and the 'popish plot' / Alexandra Gajda Gajda, Alexandra 115

7 The Scottish King and the English court: the secret correspondence of James VI, 1601-3 / Alexander Courtney Courtney, Alexander 134

Part IV Imaginative writings and the wider public world

8 The succession in sermons, news and rumour / Arnold Hunt Hunt, Arnold 155

9 Hamlet and succession / Richard Button Button, Richard 173

10 The poetics of succession, 1587-1605: the Stuart claim / Richard A. McCabe McCabe, Richard A. 192

Part V Britain and beyond

11 Polemic and prejudice: a Scottish king for an English throne / Susan Doran Doran, Susan 215

12 Brinkmanship and bad luck: Ireland, the Nine Years' War and the succession / Rory Rapple Rapple, Rory 236

13 A view from abroad: continental powers and the succession / Thomas M. McCoog, SJ McCoog, Thomas M., SJ 257

14 States, monarchs and dynastic transitions: the political thought of John Hayward / R. Malcolm Smuts Smuts, R. Malcolm 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-313) and index.

ISBN:

071908606X

9780719086069

OCLC:

881859085