Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England近代英格兰早期的文学与偏爱

出版时间：2006-2  出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr  作者：Perry, Curtis  页数：328  

内容概要

For writers in the early modern period, thinking about royal favorites inevitably meant thinking about the uneasy intersection of the personal and the public in a political system traditionally organized around patronage and intimacy. Depictions of favoritism - in a variety of texts including plays, poems, libels, and pamphlets - therefore explore the most fundamental ideological questions concerning personal monarchy and the early modern public sphere, questions about the nature and limits of prerogative and about the enfranchisement or otherwise of subjects. In this study, Curtis Perry examines the ideological underpinnings of the heated controversies surrounding powerful royal favorites and the idea of favoritism in the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Perry argues that the discourse of corrupt favoritism is this period's most important unofficial vehicle for exploring constitutional unease concerning the nature and limits of personal monarchy within the balanced English constitution.

书籍目录

1 “Prerogative pleasures”：favoritism and monarchy in early modern england2 Leicester and his ghosts3 Amici principis:imagining the good favorite4 Poisoning favor5 Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama6 “What pleased the prince ”：:edward Ⅱand the imbalanced constitution7 Instrumental favoritism and the uses of roman historyNotes Index