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Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Curtis C Breight

    1. English Department, University of Pittsburgh, US

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Regnum Cecilianum

    1. Introduction: Regnum Cecilianum

      • Curtis C Breight
      Pages 1-42

  3. State of Terror

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. State Power

      • Curtis C Breight
      Pages 45-69

    3. Manifestations of State Power

      • Curtis C Breight
      Pages 70-91

  4. Elizabethan Cold Wars

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Cultures of Surveillance

      • Curtis C Breight
      Pages 95-110

    3. Propaganda Wars and the English Succession Crisis

      • Curtis C Breight
      Pages 111-126

  5. Elizabethan Hot Wars

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    3. Military Conflict among the Elite

      • Curtis C Breight
      Pages 190-207

    4. ‘The Days of Villainy’

      • Curtis C Breight
      Pages 208-238

  6. Conclusion: Legacies of Surveillance and Militarism

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 242-348
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About this book

Curtis Breight challenges the view that Renaissance English rulers could not dominate their domestic population. He argues, alternatively, that the Elizabethan state was controlled by the Cecilian faction, which maintained power by focusing English energies outwardly. Cecilians launched relentless assaults by land and sea against England's neighbours. By the 1590s their policies had enriched a few yet destroyed countless people, and this book reads the drama of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in relation to ongoing national and international conflict.
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