Presbyterian Church and State Before The Solemn League and Covenant

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. John Donne and the Practice of Priesthood 1
4. Charity, Halifax, and Utopia: The Disadvantageous Setting of Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici 17
5. Presbyterian Church and State Before The Solemn League and Covenant 33
6. The Flaw in Paradise: The Critique of Idealism in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World 55
7. “Conceited portraiture before his Book . . . to catch fools and silly gazers”: Some Reflections on Paradise Lost and the Tradition of the Engraved Frontispiece 69
8. “But Smythes Must Speake”: Women’s and Commoners’ Voices in the Mirror for Magistrates 83
9. Fit for a King: The Manuscript Psalms of King James VI/I 97
10. The Suicide of Lavinia: Finding Rome in Titus Andronicus 111
11. The Language of Gods: Rhetoric and the Construction of Masculinity in Julius Caesar 125