Doubtful and Dangerous - The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England

Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign

List of 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

About the author

Susan Doran is a Senior Research Fellow in History at Jesus College, OxfordPaulina Kewes is a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford

Summary

Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign -- .

Product details

• Authors: Susan Doran, Susan Kewes Doran, Paulina Kewes
• Assisted by: Susan Doran (Editor), Doran Susan (Editor), Kewes Paulina (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2016
• EAN: 9781784993597
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-359-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain; Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600