Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents XI
4. Illustrations XIII
5. Introduction: Thomas Middleton’s Plural Politics 1
6. Chapter 1. “He that knows how to obey, knows how to reign”: James as The Phoenix 43
7. Chapter 2. “And in all times, may this day ever prove / A day of triumph, joy and honest love”? The Witch and the Overbury Trials 73
8. Chapter 3. “Two ways at once”: The World Tossed at Tennis and the Thirty Years War 111
9. Chapter 4. “If this be virtue’s path, ’tis a strange one”: A Game at Chess’s Competing Histories 153
10. Conclusion: “Use but your royal hand” 193
11. Works Cited 199
12. Index 219