Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A note on texts; Chapter 1 "Prerogative pleasures": favoritism and monarchy in early modern England; Chapter 2 Leicester and his ghosts; Chapter 3 Amici principis: imagining the good...
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A note on texts; Chapter 1 "Prerogative pleasures": favoritism and monarchy in early modern England; Chapter 2 Leicester and his ghosts; Chapter 3 Amici principis: imagining the good favorite; Chapter 4 Poisoning favor; Chapter 5 Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama; Chapter 6 "What pleased the prince": Edward II and the imbalanced constitution; Chapter 7 Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history; Afterword: "In a true sense there is no Monarchy"; Notes; Index. Using analysis of literary texts, this study examines the ideological underpinnings of the heated controversies surrounding powerful royal favorites and the idea of favoritism in the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Perry introduces the reader to new ways of thinking about the prehistory of English republican thought
