A Mirror for Magistrates in Context : Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England (Paperback)

Part I. A Myrroure for Magistrates (1559?63): 1. A Renaissance man and his 'medieval' text: William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates, 1547?63 Scott C. Lucas; 2. 'A miserable time full of piteous tragedyes' Paul Budra; 3. Tragic and untragic bodies in A Mirror for Magistrates Mike Pincombe; 4. Reading and listening to William Baldwin Jennifer Richards; 5. Bibliophily in Baldwin's Mirror Angus Vine; Part II. Later Additions (1574?1616): 6. 'Hoysted high vpon the rolling wheele': Elianor Cobham's lament Cathy Shrank; 7. Romans in the Mirror Paulina Kewes; 8. 'Those chronicles whiche other men had': Paralipsis and Blenerhasset's Seconde Part of the Mirror for Magistrates (1578) Harriet Archer; 9. Richard Niccols and Tudor nostalgia Andrew Hadfield; 10. A Mirror for Magistrates: Richard Niccols's Sir Thomas Overburies Vision (1616) Michelle O'Callaghan; Part III. Reading the Mirror: Poetry and Drama: 11. Rethinking absolutism: English de casibus tragedy in the 1560s Jessica Winston; 12. 'They do it with mirrors': Baldwin's Mirror and Elizabethan literature's political vanishing act Bart van Es; 13. 'Most out of order': preposterous time in A Mirror for Magistrates and Shakespeare's histories Philip Schwyzer.