In the twenty-first century, literary criticism, literary theory, historiography, and cultural studies
have become intimately interwoven, and the formerly distinct fields of literature, society …

This thesis is the first attempt to provide an assessment of Scottish-Jacobean foreign
relations within a European context in the years before 1603. Moreover, it represents the …

The (in) capacity of the House of Stuart to provide competent royal government, in both
Scotland and England, has been a staple topic in the historiography of the British Isles …

James I's accession to the English throne in 1603 was marked by the rising prominence of
the Bedchamber as a powerful and semi-autonomous institution that was manned by an …

This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of
William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between …

The Court masque had its origins in a variety of folk rituals, in tournaments, and in
Continental Court festivals. A genre often criticized for its expense and frivolity, it was yet …

As of a picture wrought to opticke reason… And till you stand, and in a right line view it, You
cannot well judge what the maine form is. 1 These lines from George Chapman‟ s The …

This dissertation examines the rituals associated with the Bedchamber of James I of
England. James I's accession introduced the institution of the Bedchamber to the English …

The transcription of the inventories of the contents of the garden of Mary, Countess of Home,
at Moray House, Edinburgh, in the mid-seventeenth century has led to the close examination …

ABSTRACT John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is a dramatization of the unsanctioned
marriage and disappearance of an Italian Duchess approximately one hundred years before …