Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; Conventions; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Personal Politics: 1. The culture of early Stuart libelling; 2. Contesting identities: libels and the early Stuart politician; Part II. Public Politics: 3. Freeing the tongue and the heart: satire and the political subject; 4. Discourses of discrimination: political satire in the 1620s; Part III. The Politics of Division: 5. Satire and sycophancy: Richard Corbett and early Stuart Royalism; 6. Stigmatising Prynne: Puritanism and politics in the 1630s; Epilogue: early Stuart satire and the Civil War; Bibliography; Index.