{"product_id":"literature-and-favoritism-in-early-modern-england-paperback-9780521117326","title":"Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England (Paperback) 9780521117326","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiterature and Favoritism in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book analyzes literary representations of royal favorites in the late Elizabeth and early Stuart period.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCurtis Perry (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521117326, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Perry's approach is well-argued, comprehensive, and fascinating first to last. This is an excellent book...His examples are excellent, and he always keeps us on his point...It is quite outstanding\"    \u003cbr\u003eMichael Denbo, Renaissance Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor 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 - 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e A note on texts\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'Prerogative Pleasures': favoritism and monarchy in early modern England\u003cbr\u003e 2. Leicester and his ghosts\u003cbr\u003e 3. Amici Principis: imagining the good favorite\u003cbr\u003e 4. Poisoning favor\u003cbr\u003e 5. Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'What pleased the prince': Edward II and the imbalanced constitution\u003cbr\u003e 7. Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: 'In a true sense there is no Monarchy'\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004981989656,"sku":"9780521117326","price":29.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521117326i_64ac9e6b-114d-4a26-a158-dab68fd06796.jpg?v=1691371557","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/literature-and-favoritism-in-early-modern-england-paperback-9780521117326","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}