Mingling Freely at the Mermaid
Blair Worden: 17th-century poets and politics, 6 November 2003
The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives
edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies.
Ashgate, 213 pp., £45, November 2003,0 7546 0681 3 Show More
edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies.
Ashgate, 213 pp., £45, November 2003,
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-60
by Alastair Bellany.
Cambridge, 312 pp., £45, January 2002,0 521 78289 9 Show More
by Alastair Bellany.
Cambridge, 312 pp., £45, January 2002,
“... of the political and of the intellectual world. The wars removed the mysteries of politics. G.K. Hunter has remarked on the contrast between The Faerie Queene and Dryden’s allegory of the exclusion crisis a century later, Absalom and Achitophel. Spenser linked politics to mythology, cosmology, universal ideas. Dryden reduced politics to intrigue and ... ”