Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on texts
- 1 “Prerogative pleasures”: favoritism and monarchy in early modern England
- 2 Leicester and his ghosts
- 3 Amici principis: imagining the good favorite
- 4 Poisoning favor
- 5 Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama
- 6 “What pleased the prince”: Edward II and the imbalanced constitution
- 7 Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history
- Afterword: “In a true sense there is no Monarchy”
- Notes
- Index
A note on texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on texts
- 1 “Prerogative pleasures”: favoritism and monarchy in early modern England
- 2 Leicester and his ghosts
- 3 Amici principis: imagining the good favorite
- 4 Poisoning favor
- 5 Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama
- 6 “What pleased the prince”: Edward II and the imbalanced constitution
- 7 Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history
- Afterword: “In a true sense there is no Monarchy”
- Notes
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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