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2 Essexianism and the work of Gervase Markham

Abstract

This chapter describes that Gervase Markham had enjoyed an earlier career as a writer of strongly romance-flavoured literature associated with the Earl of Essex. As one of the most prolific and engaged of Essexian writers, Markham has been described as 'the self-appointed laureate of the Essex group'. His copious writings from the 1590s offer an interesting and generally neglected case study of the whole world of what one might usefully term Essexianism. The chapter suggests that Markham's practical manuals are rooted fundamentally in the earlier military-chivalric writings. Markham's encyclopedia of everyday life should be thought of as a late and surprising flowering of Elizabethan Essexianism. Markham's play, The Dumbe Knight, features a valiant knight, Philocles, in love with a difficult mistress who sets him the task of not speaking for an entire year, a task which she soon regrets.

Abstract

This chapter describes that Gervase Markham had enjoyed an earlier career as a writer of strongly romance-flavoured literature associated with the Earl of Essex. As one of the most prolific and engaged of Essexian writers, Markham has been described as 'the self-appointed laureate of the Essex group'. His copious writings from the 1590s offer an interesting and generally neglected case study of the whole world of what one might usefully term Essexianism. The chapter suggests that Markham's practical manuals are rooted fundamentally in the earlier military-chivalric writings. Markham's encyclopedia of everyday life should be thought of as a late and surprising flowering of Elizabethan Essexianism. Markham's play, The Dumbe Knight, features a valiant knight, Philocles, in love with a difficult mistress who sets him the task of not speaking for an entire year, a task which she soon regrets.

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  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgements viii
  5. Notes on contributors ix
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I Essex: patron and patronage
  8. 1 ‘Cleverly playing the stoic’ 25
  9. 2 Essexianism and the work of Gervase Markham 47
  10. 3 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and the practice of theatre 63
  11. 4 Essex’s international agenda in 1595 and his device of the Indian Prince 81
  12. Part II Self-fashioning
  13. 5 ‘Achilles alter’ 101
  14. 6 ‘Bringing rebellion broached on his sword’ 133
  15. 7 Essex’s last campaign 153
  16. Illustrations 169
  17. 8 ‘Idle papers’ 179
  18. 9 ‘Toucht with bolt of Treason’ 201
  19. 10 The Earl of Essex and ‘politic history’ 237
  20. Part III Afterlives
  21. 11 Prodigality and the Earl of Essex 263
  22. 12 The Earl of Essex and the Duke of Windsor 279
  23. Select bibliography 295
  24. Index 321
Essex
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Essex
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526110992.00009

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgements viii
  5. Notes on contributors ix
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I Essex: patron and patronage
  8. 1 ‘Cleverly playing the stoic’ 25
  9. 2 Essexianism and the work of Gervase Markham 47
  10. 3 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and the practice of theatre 63
  11. 4 Essex’s international agenda in 1595 and his device of the Indian Prince 81
  12. Part II Self-fashioning
  13. 5 ‘Achilles alter’ 101
  14. 6 ‘Bringing rebellion broached on his sword’ 133
  15. 7 Essex’s last campaign 153
  16. Illustrations 169
  17. 8 ‘Idle papers’ 179
  18. 9 ‘Toucht with bolt of Treason’ 201
  19. 10 The Earl of Essex and ‘politic history’ 237
  20. Part III Afterlives
  21. 11 Prodigality and the Earl of Essex 263
  22. 12 The Earl of Essex and the Duke of Windsor 279
  23. Select bibliography 295
  24. Index 321
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