Doubtful and dangerous : The question of succession in late Elizabethan England /: The question of succession in late Elizabethan England. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Doran, Paulina Kewes.
• Editors: Doran, Susan; Kewes, Paulina
• Contents: Part I: Contexts and approaches; 1. Introduction: A historiographical perspective – Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes; 2. The earlier Elizabethan succession question revisited – Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes; ; Part II: Religion and politics; 3. The Puritan, the Jesuit and the Jacobean succession – Paulina Kewes; 4. Taking it to the street? The Archpriest controversy and the issue of the succession – Peter Lake and Michael Questier; 5. Bishop Richard Bancroft and the succession – Patrick Collinson; ; Part III: The court; 6. Essex and the ‘popish plot’ – Alexandra Gajda; 7. The Scottish King and the English court: the secret correspondence of James VI, 1601–3 – Alexander Courtney; ; Part IV: Imaginative writings and the wider public world; 8. The succession in sermons, news and rumour – Arnold Hunt; 9. Hamlet and succession – Richard Dutton; 10. The poetics of succession, 1587–1605: the Stuart claim – Richard A. McCabe; ; Part V: Britain and beyond; 11. Polemic and prejudice: a Scottish king for an English throne – Susan Doran; 12. Brinkmanship and bad luck: Ireland, the Nine Years’ War and the succession – Rory Rapple; 13. A view from abroad: continental powers and the succession – Thomas M. McCoog, SJ; 14. States, monarchs and dynastic transitions: the political thought of John Hayward – R. Malcolm Smuts; ; Afterword – Blair Worden; Select Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century; Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847799302; 1847799302
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