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Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Imagined Empire
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    Chapter 2 ‘In This Noble Region’: Politics and Counsel in The Godly Queene Hester (Anonymous, c. 1530)
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    Chapter 3 ‘[A]dvice Unto a Prince’: Kingship and Counsel in Kyng Daryus (Anonymous, 1565) and Cambises (Thomas Preston, c. 1560)
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    Chapter 4 ‘A Crown Enchas’d with Pearl and Gold’: Wealth and Absolute Rule in The Warres of Cyrus (Richard Farrant, 1576–1580) and Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2 (Christopher Marlowe, 1587–1588)
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    Chapter 5 ‘I Wish to Be None Other but as He’: Friendship and Counsel in The Travailes of the Three English Brothers (1607) by John Day, William Rowley, and George Wilkins and Contemporary Closet Drama
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    Chapter 6 ‘Read[ing] Philosophy to a King’: Ideals of Monarchy in William Cartwright’s The Royall Slave (1636)
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    Chapter 7 ‘[R]eally Acted in Persia’: Counsel, Regicide and Restoration in John Denham, the Sophy (1642) and Robert Baron, Mirza (1655)
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    Chapter 8 To ‘Dispose of Crowns’: Conversion, the Authority of Monarchy and the Issue of Succession: Elkanah Settle’s Cambyses (1667)
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    Chapter 9 ‘The King, Who Loves the Persian Mode’: Tyranny and Excess in Nathaniel Lee’s The Rival Queens (1677)
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    Chapter 10 ‘[D]evour’d by Luxury’: Gender, Governance and Absolute Kingship in John Crowne’s Darius, King of Persia (1688) and Colley Cibber’s Xerxes (1699)
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Chapter title
‘[R]eally Acted in Persia’: Counsel, Regicide and Restoration in John Denham, the Sophy (1642) and Robert Baron, Mirza (1655)
Chapter number 7
Book title
Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, January 2023
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-22618-2_7
Book ISBNs
978-3-03-122617-5, 978-3-03-122618-2
Authors

Houston, Chloë

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