Doubtful and dangerous : the question of succession in late Elizabethan England / edited by Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-313) and index.

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This title examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long captured the interest of historians and literary scholars, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies this situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual chapters demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession.

Doubtful and dangerous: The question of succession in late Elizabethan England; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication ; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Part I: Contexts and approaches; Chapter 1: Introduction: a historiographical perspective: Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes; Chapter 2: The earlier Elizabethan succession question revisited: Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes; Part II: Religion and politics; Chapter 3: The Puritan, the Jesuit and the Jacobean succession: Paulina Kewes.

Chapter 4: Taking it to the street? The Archpriest controversy and the issue of the succession: Peter Lake and Michael QuestierChapter 5: Bishop Richard Bancroft and the succession: Patrick Collinson; Part III: The court; Chapter 6: Essex and the 'popish plot': Alexandra Gajda; Chapter 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; Chapter 8: The succession in sermons, news and rumour: Arnold Hunt; Chapter 9: Hamlet and succession: Richard Dutton.

Chapter 10: The poetics of succession, 1587-1605: the Stuart claim: Richard A. McCabePart V: Britain and beyond; Chapter 11: Polemic and prejudice: a Scottish king for an English throne: Susan Doran; Chapter 12: Brinkmanship and bad luck: Ireland, the Nine Years' War and the succession: Rory Rapple; Chapter 13: A view from abroad: continental powers and the succession: Thomas M. McCoog, SJ; Chapter 14: States, monarchs and dynastic transitions: the political thought of John Hayward: R. Malcolm Smuts; Afterword: Blair Worden; Select bibliography; Index.

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