Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521854054
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; English literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; History and criticism; Eastern Europe; Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Courts and courtiers in literature; Early modern, 1500-1700; Favorites, Royal, in literature
First sentence: From the appearance, in 1584, of the enormously popular libel known as Leicester's Commonwealth to the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham in the summer of 1628, hostility toward seemingly all-powerful royal favorites played a central role in the development and articulation of anti-court sentiment in England.