Synopses & Reviews
Bringing together contributions from political, cultural, and literary historians, Leadership and Elizabethan Culture identifies distinctive problems confronting early modern English government during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
This diverse group of contributors examines local elites and church leadership, explores the queen, her councillors, as well as her struggles with Mary Stuart and Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, raises questions about Elizabeth's leadership, and the advice she received as well as the advice she rejected.
Selected, influential works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Sidney, and Bacon are put in their Elizabethan and contemporary critical contexts, rounding off the study of Elizabethan culture and projecting forward to the images of leadership that form a conspicuous part of the Elizabethan legacy.
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"A novel collection that deftly balances contemporary expectations of monarchy, key questions about Elizabeth's queenship, and wider issues about the skills and qualities of a good leader without ever falling into anachronism. These essays offer new assessments of the nature of Elizabeth's governance and will stimulate further the already lively debates on one of British history's most iconic figures and the nature of leadership. An ideal collection for the Elizabethan specialist, the student, the political scientist - and, perhaps, even the politician." - Natalie Mears, Professor of History, University of Durham, UK
"This fascinating collection of essays assesses the role of leadership in Elizabethan England across a range of spheres, from church and state to the economy and the theatre. A series of inter- and cross-disciplinary interventions re-evaluate the relative significance of personal rulership and of popular participation in the process of governing the late Tudor polity in international, national, and regional contexts. Kaufman has brought together a hugely impressive team of scholars whose contributions cumulatively encourage a rethink about just how 'republican' the 'monarchical republic' of Elizabeth I could ever really have been." - Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library, USA
Synopsis
Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama.
About the Author
Peter Iver Kaufman is Charles Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA, and Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has published books on Tudor culture as well as on religion and politics in late antiquity. His latest, Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More, was published in 2007, while his Religion Around Shakespeare will be published next year in the series he edits for Pennsylvania State University Press. He is also editor-in-chief of the on-line journal Religions.
Table of Contents
1. Queen Elizabeth I of England: Monarchical Leadership in Action
Susan Doran
2. Of Poetry and Politics: The Managerial Culture of Sixteenth-Century England
Norman L. Jones
3. Alla Prudentissima Et Virtuosissima Reina Elisabetta: An Englishman's Italian Dedication to the Queen
Charlotte Boland
4. Mary Queen of Scots and the Northern Rebellion of 1569
K.J. Kesselring
5. Queen Elizabeth's Leadership Abroad: The Netherlands in the 1570s
Peter Iver Kaufman
6. Leadership in the 1590s
Janet Dickinson
7. Imagination and Leadership in Elizabethan England
Todd Butler
8. Henry Herbert, Second Earl of Pembroke and Noble Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces
Neil Younger
9. Swingebreeches and Scholers: Images of Pastoral Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces
Timothy Scott McGinnis
10. Commerce and Community: Emergent Forms of Economic Leadership in Elizabeth's England
Ritchie D. Kendall
11. The Perils of Political Showmanship: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great
Meg Pearson
12. Subject, Servant, and Sovereign: Servant Leadership in Elizabethan Government and Shakespeare's King John
Kristin M.S. Bezio
13 'If Power Change Purpose': Defining Leadership in Measure for Measure
Karen Bruhn