From Republic to Restoration

Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature and a Founding Director of the Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Hull

• Introduction: from Republic to Restoration – Janet Clare1. 1660: Restoration and revolution – Blair Worden2. Monarchy and commonwealth: ‘republican’ defences of monarchy at theRestoration – Glenn Burgess3. Couplets, commonplaces and the creation of history in The Famous Tragedie of King Charles I (1649) and Cromwell’s Conspiracy (1660) – Marissa Nicosia4. ‘Plots’ and dissent: the abortive Northern rebellion of 1663 – Alan Marshall5. Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640-80 – Amanda L. Capern6. The battle of the books: the Authorized Version and the Book of Common Prayer at the Restoration – David Bagchi7. Acts of oblivion: reframing drama, 1649-65 – Janet Clare8. ‘Far off the public stage’: Marvell’s public and private writings, 1649-65 – Keith McDonald9. Projecting the Experiment: science and the Restoration – Ted McCormick10. The view from the devil’s mountain: Clarendon, Cressy and Hobbes, and the past, present and future of the Church of England – Paul Seaward11. ‘The Sport of Bishop-Hunting’: Marvell and the neo-Laudians – Martin Dzelzainis12. Choosing a captain back for Egypt: Milton and the Restoration – Warren Chernaik13. The French connection: luxury, portraiture, and the court of Charles II – Laura L. Knoppers 14. Restoration opera and the failure of patronage – Bryan White15. ‘The Name of King will light upon a Tarquin’: republicanism, exclusion, and the name of king in Nathaniel Lee’s Lucius Junius Brutus – Lisanna Calvi16. ‘A Child of Heathen Hobbs’: political prints of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis – the revision of a republican mode – Christina M. CarlsonBibliographyIndex

'Clare has done a marvellous job as editor, bringing together a collection that is both diverse and cohesive, not an easy feat. The interdisciplinary approach works well as nothing in society exists in a vacuum. Therefore, I strongly recommend that instead of cherry-picking ‘the relevant chapter’ you read this collection cover to cover.'English Journal of the English Association'Cumulatively, the essays collected here demonstrate just how much connects the Republic with what followed, prompting us to see the familiar in a new light or to make new discoveries entirely. They also serve as a stark reminder that scholars who insist on imposing artificial (and often arbitrary) period divisions onto thematerials of the seventeenth century do so at their peril.'The Seventeenth Century