The Reign of Elizabeth I

• Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: the 1590s: the second reign of Elizabeth I? JOHN GUY; 1. The patronage of the Crown in Elizabethan politics: the 1590s in perspective SIMON ADAMS; 2 .Regnum Cecilianum? A Cecilian perspective of the court NATALIE MEARS; 3. Patronage at Court, faction and the earl of Essex PAUL E. J. HAMMER; 4. Peers, patronage and the politics of history LINDA LEVY PECK; 5. The fall of Sir John Perrot HIRAM MORGAN; 6. The Elizabethan establishment and the ecclesiastical polity JOHN GUY; 7. Ecclesiastical vitriol: religious satire in the 1590s and the invention of puritanism PATRICK COLLINSON; 8. Ecclesiastical vitriol: the kirk, the puritans and the future king of England JENNY WORMALD; 9. Social strain and social dislocation, 1585–1603 JIM SHARPE; 10. Lords of Liberty: Francis Davison and the cult of Elizabeth RICHARD C. McCOY; 11. The complaint of poetry for the death of liberality: the decline of literary patronage in the 1590s ALISTAIR FOX; 12. Summer's Last Will and Testament: revels' end MARIE AXTON; 13. The theatre and the court in the 1590s FRITZ LEVY; Index.

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