Mingling Freely at the Mermaid
Blair Worden: 17th-century poets and politics, 6 November 2003
The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives
edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies.
Ashgate, 213 pp., £45, November 2003,0 7546 0681 3 Show More
edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies.
Ashgate, 213 pp., £45, November 2003,
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-60
by Alastair Bellany.
Cambridge, 312 pp., £45, January 2002,0 521 78289 9 Show More
by Alastair Bellany.
Cambridge, 312 pp., £45, January 2002,
“... literary and mythological allegories. In The Crisis of 1614, essays by Jonathan Gibson and Stephen Clucas show Ralegh’s cousin Sir Arthur Gorges adapting Lucan’s verse history of Rome’s civil wars, and Jonson’s friend Sir Robert Cotton rewriting the reign of Henry III, with an eye to Jacobean political anxieties. Cotton was among the most ... ”
