The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice

by Curtis Perry

Overview

It is a critical commonplace to note sharp cultural differences between Elizabethan and Jacobean England. But how and why did this transition take place? What kinds of decisions and assumptions were involved as writers responded to the new king? How did residual Elizabethan expectations and habits of mind shape the English response to James I, and what were the consequences? How much control did James have over his reception? This study examines these questions in detail by exploring a wide range of texts written during the first decade of his reign in England, from 1603 to 1613.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521574068
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/13/1997
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; A note on texts; Introduction; Part I. Negotiations in Genre and Decorum: 1. Panegyric and the poet-king; 2. Arcadia re-formed: pastoral negotiations in early Jacobean England; Part II. Staging Jacobean Kingcraft: 3. Theatre of counsel: royal vulnerability and early Jacobean political drama; 4. Nourish-fathers and pelican daughters: kingship, gender and bounty in King Lear and Macbeth; Part III. Structures of Feeling: 5. The politics of nostalgia: Queen Elizabeth in early Jacobean England; 6. Royal style and the civic elite in early Jacobean London; Epilogue: warrant and obedience in Bartholemew Fair; Notes; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...complex and penetrating..." Catherine I. Cox, Sixteenth Century Journal

"wonderfully clear and well organized...Perry deploys punctilious research, style local knowledge, extensive critical awareness, and a lucid prose style that readers of many critical camps can admire. The book's accomplishment is considerable: it gives us an enriched, intelligently historicized sense of the representational strategies and pratices the writing culture- that flattered, challenged, and helped define the new king of England." Modern Philology

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