The Accession of James I: Historical and Cultural Consequences

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
1603: The End of English National Sovereignty....Pages 1-14
‘Representing the awefull authoritie of soveraigne Majestie’: Monarchs and Mayors in Anthony Munday’s The Triumphes of Re-united Britania....Pages 15-33
The Jacobean Union Controversy and King Lear ....Pages 34-47
Radical Britain: David Hume of Godscroft and the Challenge to the Jacobean British Vision....Pages 48-68
The Happier Marriage Partner: The Impact of the Union of the Crowns on Scotland....Pages 69-87
London or the World? The Paradox of Culture in (post-) Jacobean Scotland....Pages 88-100
‘Twice done and then done double’: Equivocation and the Catholic Recusant Hostess in Shakespeare’s Macbeth....Pages 101-112
The Romans in Britain, 1603–1614....Pages 113-139
Rex Pacificus, Robert Cecil, and the 1604 Peace with Spain....Pages 140-154
1603 and the Discourse of Favouritism....Pages 155-176
The Essex Myth in Jacobean England....Pages 177-186
The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke’s British Jurisprudence....Pages 187-207
Back Matter....Pages 208-215