| The Emperor's Favourite Contributor(s): Keenan, Siobhan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0719086094 ISBN-13: 9780719086090 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $67.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Europe - Ireland - History | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 822.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.6" W x 9.4" (1.60 lbs) 130 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Emperor's Favourite, which appears in print for the first time, is one of the four anonymous seventeenth-century plays bound in a single volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton. Tentatively attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642), the play uses the story of the rise and fall of Crispinus, favourite of the Emperor Nero, to mount a critique of the influence of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628) at the courts of James I and Charles I. The volume is illustrated with ten color plates from the manuscript and from John Newdigate's 1628 Parliamentary Diary. |