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Doubtful and dangerous
The question of succession in late Elizabethan England
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Susan Doran
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English
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2014
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Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long commanded scholarly attention, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies the situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts – literary, political and polemical – cannot be understood without reference to the succession. The essays also reveal how the issue affected court politics, lay at the heart of religious disputes, stimulated constitutional innovation, and shaped foreign relations. By situating the topic within its historiographical and chronological contexts, the editors offer a novel account of the whole reign.
Interdisciplinary in scope and spanning the crucial transition from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the book will be indispensable to scholars and students of early modern British and Irish history, literature and religion.
Interdisciplinary in scope and spanning the crucial transition from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the book will be indispensable to scholars and students of early modern British and Irish history, literature and religion.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Susan Doran
Susan Doran is a Senior Research Fellow in History at Jesus College, Oxford
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Contributor: Paulina Kewes
Paulina Kewes is a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford
Reviews
‘All in all, this is a fine volume, full of valuable insights and one which does credit to both the editors and the series.’
Nicholas Tyacke, University College London, The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust 2016
‘It contains much which is original and much for further research, and the Catholic perspective contains much that gives grounds for thought in different directions to the usual. Excellent bibliographical references throughout provide material for this thought. This is a worthwhile addition to the library of anyone interested in the question of the Elizabethan succession.’
Jasmin L. Ditcham, Wellington, Shropshire, The Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies. Volume XLVlll, No. 1, Spring 2017
Nicholas Tyacke, University College London, The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust 2016
‘It contains much which is original and much for further research, and the Catholic perspective contains much that gives grounds for thought in different directions to the usual. Excellent bibliographical references throughout provide material for this thought. This is a worthwhile addition to the library of anyone interested in the question of the Elizabethan succession.’
Jasmin L. Ditcham, Wellington, Shropshire, The Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies. Volume XLVlll, No. 1, Spring 2017
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Front matter
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Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
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Dedication
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Contents
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Notes on contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations and conventions
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xiv - Part I Contexts and approaches
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1 Introduction
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2 The earlier Elizabethan succession question revisited
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3 The Puritan, the Jesuit and the Jacobean succession
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4 Taking it to the street?
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5 Bishop Richard Bancroft and the succession
92 - Part III The court
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6 Essex and the ‘popish plot’
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7 The Scottish King and the English court
134 - Part IV Imaginative writings and the wider public world
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8 The succession in sermons, news and rumour
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9 Hamlet and succession
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10 The poetics of succession, 1587–1605
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11 Polemic and prejudice
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12 Brinkmanship and bad luck
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13 A view from abroad
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14 States, monarchs and dynastic transitions
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Afterword
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Select bibliography
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Index
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September 13, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781847799319
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Keywords for this book
succession; Elizabeth I; Mary Queen of Scots; James VI and I; Parliament; Catholics; Protestants; Puritans; Polemic
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
