Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters
Regular price
€102.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Jackie Watson
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Jackie Watson
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BJ
Category=DND
Category=DSBC
Category=DSBD
Category=LNAA
COP=United Kingdom
Courtiership
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
early modern epistolarity
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Jacobean theatre
Language_English
male friendship
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
royal prerogative
Sir Thomas Overbury
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781474483377
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters re-examines what is meant by courtiership in the Jacobean period. With a particular focus on the years between 1609 and 1613, the book brings together many of the letters surrounding the scandal leading to Overbury's murder and provides an examination of epistolarity in the context of humanist and legal learning. Defining key themes of social mobility, homosociality and the legal power of James VI and I, it exposes the mechanisms by which men rose at his court and provides a context for a new reading of contemporary dramatic texts by Shakespeare, Webster and Chapman. The book argues that the changing performance of courtiership at James's court, the wider knowledge of that reflected in contemporary letters and consequently shifting attitudes, all alter the performance of courtiership in the playhouse.
