Includes papers presented at a workshop held at the Folger Institute, Washington, D.C., Oct. 4-5, 1991. "Published in association with the Folger Institute, Washington, DC." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : The 1590s : the second reign of Elizabeth I? / John Guy -- The patronage of the crown in Elizabethan politics : the 1590s in perspective / Simon Adams -- Regnum Cecilianum? : a Cecilian perspective of the court / Natalie Mears -- Patronage at court, faction and the earl of Essex / Paul E.J. Hammer -- Peers, patronage and the politics of history / Linda Levy Peck -- The fall of Sir John Perrot / Hiram Morgan -- The Elizabethan establishment and the ecclesiastical polity / John Guy -- Ecclesiastical vitriol : religious satire in the 1590s and the invention of puritanism / Patrick Collinson -- Ecclesiastical vitriol : the kirk, the puritans and the future king of England / Jenny Wormald -- Social strain and social dislocation, 1585-1603 / Jim Sharpe -- Lord of liberty : Francis Davison and the cult of Elizabeth / Richard C. McCoy -- The complaint of poetry for the death of liberality : the decline of literary patronage in the 1590s / Alistair Fox -- Summer's last will and testament : revels' end / Marie Axton -- The theatre and the Court in the 1590s / Fritz Levy.
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