Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. "Cities their lutes, and subjects hearts their strings" 20
6. Chapter Two. The "Disfiguring of Sin" 48
7. Chapter Three. "Crownes are for Hero's" 74
8. Chapter Four. "If these the Times, then this must be the Man" 93
9. Chapter Five. "With his own Fasces he shall make him Fires" 119
10. Chapter Six. "An Heroick, and a lawful King . . ." 138
11. Chapter Seven. Iconoclasts and Prophets 164
12. Chapter Eight. "Raillerie a la Mode Considered" 188
13. Chapter Nine. "The Wrong side of the Heros Outward . . ." 221
14. Chapter Ten. "That kingly power, thus ebbing out, might be Drawn to the dregs of a Democracy? 244
15. Bibliography 267
16. Index 277