Edward Paleit
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199602988
- eISBN:
- 9780191744761
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602988.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, British and Irish History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter looks at two sustained readings of Lucan during the mid-Jacobean period. The translation of Arthur Gorges (published 1614) and the commentary of Thomas Farnaby (1618) demonstrate how ...
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This chapter looks at two sustained readings of Lucan during the mid-Jacobean period. The translation of Arthur Gorges (published 1614) and the commentary of Thomas Farnaby (1618) demonstrate how Lucan’s text was often the site for exploring unresolved conflicts and contradictions between different political perspectives and their associated structures of feeling. Gorges translation reflects the pressure on his own gentry class and its privileges or ‘liberties’, which he identified with Lucan’s libertas, but also warms to Lucan’s portrait of Caesar’s military generalship. Likewise, Thomas Farnaby’s commentary is warmly sympathetic to Julius Caesar but admires Lucan’s passionate commemoration of liberty.Less
This chapter looks at two sustained readings of Lucan during the mid-Jacobean period. The translation of Arthur Gorges (published 1614) and the commentary of Thomas Farnaby (1618) demonstrate how Lucan’s text was often the site for exploring unresolved conflicts and contradictions between different political perspectives and their associated structures of feeling. Gorges translation reflects the pressure on his own gentry class and its privileges or ‘liberties’, which he identified with Lucan’s libertas, but also warms to Lucan’s portrait of Caesar’s military generalship. Likewise, Thomas Farnaby’s commentary is warmly sympathetic to Julius Caesar but admires Lucan’s passionate commemoration of liberty.
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/9780198753995.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter uses two replies to John Leslie’s tract/s of 1580–84 to argue that even after the failure to convince the queen, there remained some who viewed an interregnum as the best means to handle ...
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This chapter uses two replies to John Leslie’s tract/s of 1580–84 to argue that even after the failure to convince the queen, there remained some who viewed an interregnum as the best means to handle the unsettled succession in the event of Elizabeth’s death. As formal treatises, the two tracts have some claim to represent the ‘Political Thought’ of ‘the monarchical republic’, which emerges not as classically republican but rather as founded on notions of mixed monarchy, natural law, and the sovereignty of statute. A comparison between what (different versions of) these tracts did and did not say and the contents of Thomas Bilson’s reply to Allen suggests a debate within the regime about such tender issues as elective monarchy and resistance theory. The chapter concludes with an account of the official rationale for intervention in the Low Countries, which, it argues, represented a local application of Bilson’s political theory.Less
This chapter uses two replies to John Leslie’s tract/s of 1580–84 to argue that even after the failure to convince the queen, there remained some who viewed an interregnum as the best means to handle the unsettled succession in the event of Elizabeth’s death. As formal treatises, the two tracts have some claim to represent the ‘Political Thought’ of ‘the monarchical republic’, which emerges not as classically republican but rather as founded on notions of mixed monarchy, natural law, and the sovereignty of statute. A comparison between what (different versions of) these tracts did and did not say and the contents of Thomas Bilson’s reply to Allen suggests a debate within the regime about such tender issues as elective monarchy and resistance theory. The chapter concludes with an account of the official rationale for intervention in the Low Countries, which, it argues, represented a local application of Bilson’s political theory.
