Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Private Lyrics in Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam

Chapter 3 Mariam And Early Modern Discourses Of Martyrdom

Chapter 4 Elizabeth Cary’s Historical Conscience: The Tragedy of Mariam and Thomas Lodge’s Josephus

Chapter 5 “Royal Fever” and “The Giddy Commons”: Cary’s History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II and the Buckingham Phenomenon

Chapter 6 “Fortune is a Stepmother”: Gender and Political Discourse in Elizabeth Cary’s History of Edward II

Chapter 7 A Bibliographical Palimpsest: The Post-Publication History of the 1680 Octavo, The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince King Edward II

Chapter 8 From Manuscript to Printed Text: Telling and Retelling the History of Edward II

Chapter 9 “To Informe Thee Aright”: Translating Du Perron for English Religious Debates

Chapter 10 Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle

Chapter 11 “Reader, Stand Still and Look, lo Here I am”: Elizabeth Cary’s Funeral Elegy “On the Duke of Buckingham”

Chapter 13 “To Have Her Children With Her”: Elizabeth Cary and Familial Influence