Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-371) and index.
Contents:
Court-centred politics and the uses of Roman historians, c.1590-1630 / Malcolm Smuts -- Lucan, Thomas May, and the creation of a Republican literary culture / David Norbrook -- Ben Jonson and the historians / Blair Worden -- Ben Jonson and the limits of courtly panegyric / Martin Butler -- The king's writ : royal authors and royal authority in early modern England / Kevin Sharpe -- Politics and pastoral : writing the court on the countryside / Leah S. Marcus -- Chivalry and political culture in Caroline England / J.S.A. Adamson -- The politics of portraiture / John Peacock -- Inigo Jones and the politics of architecture / J. Newman -- Deeds against nature : cheap print, Protestantism and murder in early seventeenth century England / Peter Lake -- 'Raylinge rymes and vaunting verse' : libellous politics in early Stuart England, 1603-1628 / Alastair Bellany.
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