Peter Lake
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198753995
- eISBN:
- 9780191815744
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753995.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter analyses the public fuss generated by the arrival of Mary Stuart in England and the projected match between Mary and the duke of Norfolk. This marks the arrival in England, from ...
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This chapter analyses the public fuss generated by the arrival of Mary Stuart in England and the projected match between Mary and the duke of Norfolk. This marks the arrival in England, from Scotland, of the libellous secret history, directed by the regime against Mary. Considerable attention is paid to a group of tracts by Thomas Norton, written in response to the revolt of the northern earls, in which, while ostensibly defending the Elizabethan state, Norton also made serious criticisms of the status quo, and proposed various means whereby that state might be purged of Catholics and crypto-Catholics and the regime’s true supporters amongst the godly might be discovered and rewarded; an offensive that provoked an, if not overtly Catholic, then an aggressively anti-Puritan, defence of Mary and Norfolk, with which Norton’s works are compared and contrasted.Less
This chapter analyses the public fuss generated by the arrival of Mary Stuart in England and the projected match between Mary and the duke of Norfolk. This marks the arrival in England, from Scotland, of the libellous secret history, directed by the regime against Mary. Considerable attention is paid to a group of tracts by Thomas Norton, written in response to the revolt of the northern earls, in which, while ostensibly defending the Elizabethan state, Norton also made serious criticisms of the status quo, and proposed various means whereby that state might be purged of Catholics and crypto-Catholics and the regime’s true supporters amongst the godly might be discovered and rewarded; an offensive that provoked an, if not overtly Catholic, then an aggressively anti-Puritan, defence of Mary and Norfolk, with which Norton’s works are compared and contrasted.
Jessica Winston
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198769422
- eISBN:
- 9780191822421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198769422.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter is the first of two that examines the complex social function of the institutional drama at the mid-Tudor Inns. Surveying a number of documents concerning the occasion, production, and ...
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This chapter is the first of two that examines the complex social function of the institutional drama at the mid-Tudor Inns. Surveying a number of documents concerning the occasion, production, and reception of Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton’s Gorboduc (1562), this chapter argues that the play began as an entertainment to fit a specific occasion, the Christmas revels of 1561–2, and developed into a play on the succession. Following critics who have argued that the play is more deliberative than didactic, the chapter shows that Gorboduc addresses the nature and makeup of the English political nation, broadly defined as those individuals and institutions that could legitimately contribute to discussions of matters of state.Less
This chapter is the first of two that examines the complex social function of the institutional drama at the mid-Tudor Inns. Surveying a number of documents concerning the occasion, production, and reception of Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton’s Gorboduc (1562), this chapter argues that the play began as an entertainment to fit a specific occasion, the Christmas revels of 1561–2, and developed into a play on the succession. Following critics who have argued that the play is more deliberative than didactic, the chapter shows that Gorboduc addresses the nature and makeup of the English political nation, broadly defined as those individuals and institutions that could legitimately contribute to discussions of matters of state.
