Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I v
3. Dedication vi
4. Contents vii
5. Notes on contributors ix
6. Acknowledgements xii
7. Abbreviations and conventions xiii
8. Genealogical charts xiv
9. Part I Contexts and approaches
10. 1 Introduction 3
11. 2 The earlier Elizabethan succession question revisited 20
12. Part II Religion and politics
13. 3 The Puritan, the Jesuit and the Jacobean succession 47
14. 4 Taking it to the street? 71
15. 5 Bishop Richard Bancroft and the succession 92
16. Part III The court
17. 6 Essex and the ‘popish plot’ 115
18. 7 The Scottish King and the English court 134
19. Part IV Imaginative writings and the wider public world
20. 8 The succession in sermons, news and rumour 155
21. 9 Hamlet and succession 173
22. 10 The poetics of succession, 1587–1605 192
23. Part V Britain and beyond
24. 11 Polemic and prejudice 215
25. 12 Brinkmanship and bad luck 236
26. 13 A view from abroad 257
27. 14 States, monarchs and dynastic transitions 276
28. Afterword 295
29. Select bibliography 304
30. Index 314