Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England

Perry, Curtis

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“…As Michelle White has summarized, the queen offended many English 96 Chapman, 1629, 8. 97 See Bellany and Cogswell;Bellany, 2001;Lake, 1982;McRae;Cogswell, 1989 and1990;Cust;Perry. 98 Thomas Cary to James, Earl of Carlisle, 21 December 1628: Public Record Office, SP 16/123, fol. 3 v .…”

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Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England

Gianoutsos¹

2017

Renaiss. Q.

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This article provides one of the first studies of two late works by George Chapman, “Pro Vere” (1622) and “A iustification of a strange action of Nero” (1629). Through a close examination of these works, and through situating Chapman’s texts alongside other neglected works of the 1620s that voiced opposition to the Stuart court and kings, the article examines the critical and subversive role that classical history and gendered language played in forging ideological conflict in England during the Stuart period. More broadly, the article seeks to demonstrate the importance of studying imaginative writings for understanding Stuart political culture.

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Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England

Gianoutsos¹

2017

Renaiss. Q.

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“…Curtis Perry has traced a fascination with favourites in the Jacobean era, explicable partly in terms of James's own notorious favouritism but also, Perry argues, as a metaphor for the more difficult and dangerous constitutional issues that favouritism brings into focus. 30 Again, Henry the Unable, putting its favourite into a particularly impossible position, would have been a play well placed to feed this interest. For all three of these reasons, then, a play about the career of Henry the Impotent would have made piquant viewing at court around 1619.…”

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A lost Jacobean tragedy: Henry the Una (c.1619)

Steggle

2010

Early Theatre

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This article concerns a lost play whose title is partially preserved in 'List D' of British Library: Cotton MS. Tiberius E.X. Connecting together existing scholarly work on other plays on the list, and combining this with evidence from the computer database EEBO-TCP, the essay proposes a new complete title for the play; discusses its possible sources in Spanish history; and addresses anew questions of its date, company provenance, and even authorship. The Play-list British Library: Cotton MS. Tiberius E.X. is a manuscript of Sir George Buc's History of Richard III. The History is written on the recto of each sheet and, on some of the verso sides, there are various cancelled pieces of writing Fig. 1. The manuscript fragment (f 247). © British Library Board (Cotton MS. Tiberius. E.X.). 'If Mr. Marcham has read the manuscript rightly, I cannot identify the play', comments Chambers of the fourth item on the list. Similarly, G.E. Bentley raises the possibility of palaeographical error, calling it '[t]his mutilated title-whatever it may have been in its perfect form, the last three letters are doubtful'. 4 Although neither Chambers nor Bentley explicitly says so, the reason for their doubt is partly because the letters are difficult, but partly too because it seems impossible to think of any plausible play title that might start with these letters. As a result of its enigmatic partial title, the fourth play on the list has remained firmly unknown, and is referred to, when referred to at all, as Henry the Una. In recent years, Benjamin Griffin has described the record as 'impossible to interpret confidently'. 5 Since Bentley, there have been two significant, and hitherto unconnected, advances in scholarship relating to this list. The first was made by Tucker Orbison, who in 1971 published a record showing that in 1619 William Rowley's company, the Prince's Men, performed at the Middle Temple a comedy, which seems to have involved extensive musical interludes, called The Bridegroom and the Madman. Orbison plausibly identified The Bridegroom and the Madman with the second title on List D. 6 As well as giving a faint flavour of that lost play, Orbison's record seems decisively to establish its company provenance. The second, independent advance is in the form of the Taylor/ Lavagnino Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, whose various contributing editors make several piecemeal adjustments to received wisdom about Wit at Several Weapons, The Old Law, and A Fair Quarrel, affecting issues including authorship, date, and company provenance. The combined effect of the changes made by the edition is to give a much more focussed sense of the homogeneity of the plays in the first section of List D. 7 The following table, then, shows the current best guesses as to title, authorship, company provenance, and date for the plays in the first section of List D. For the three plays with Middleton associations, these dates, author attributions, and company attributions are taken from the 2007 Collected Works; for The Bridegroom and the Ma...

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“…Assim, considerado o melhor amigo do rei, o valido detinha a exclusividade do afeto régio, o que lhe permitia acesso ao coração das decisões políticas sobre o reino. Nessa perspectiva, a prática do valimento passava gradativamente do aconselhamento particular à direção política, o que gerava inveja no ambiente de competição da nobreza e um desequilíbrio de sua lógica interna (Oliveira, 2005;2006;2009;2011;Dantas, 2006). O debate em torno da função do valido como parte da engrenagem do governo não se restringiu aos teóricos da política e aos tratadistas.…”

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“…Com isso, o autor procura argumentar sobre uma profunda ambivalência sobre a legitimidade da intimidade pessoal como um mecanismo político e, assim, explorar questões referentes ao caráter da relação entre monarquia e sujeito a qual contribui para emergência das idéias proto-republicanas sobre o serviço público. Ou seja, os discursos sobre o favoritismo estão dentro dos debates históricos sobre a ascensão do pensamento republicano (Perry, 2006). Sobre as Comedias de la Privanza se projetam muitos dos mecanismos de funcionamento de um modelo de sociedade cortesã -a corte francesa de Luis XIV -cujas peculiaridades foram estudadas por Norbert Elias.…”

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O valido em cena. Política, história e crítica social em ¿Cómo ha de ser el privado?, de Francisco de Quevedo

Oliveira

Rodrigues

2014

Estud. Ibero-Am. (Online)

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Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England

Cited by 42 publications

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Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England

Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England

A lost Jacobean tragedy: Henry the Una (c.1619)

O valido em cena. Política, história e crítica social em ¿Cómo ha de ser el privado?, de Francisco de Quevedo

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