Chapters in this book

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