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Michael Dobson: How to Be a Favourite, 5 October 2006
Literature and Favouritism in Early Modern England
by Curtis Perry.
Cambridge, 328 pp., £50, February 2006,0 521 85405 9 Show More
by Curtis Perry.
Cambridge, 328 pp., £50, February 2006,
“... possibilities providing the principal subject of plays as diverse as Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (1592), Ben Jonson’s Sejanus, His Fall (1603-5), Philip Massinger’s The Roman Actor (1626) and John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice (1632). According to Perry, this is in large part because the favourite made conveniently visible a central problem with ... ”