
The Emperor's Favourite
Siobhan Keenan(Editor)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. December 2010
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-0-7190-8609-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Emperor's Favourite, which appears in print for the first time, is one of the four anonymous seventeenth-century plays bound in a single volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton. Tentatively attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642), the play uses the story of the rise and fall of Crispinus, favourite of the Emperor Nero, to mount a critique of the influence of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628) at the courts of James I and Charles I. The volume is illustrated with ten color plates from the manuscript and from John Newdigate's 1628 Parliamentary Diary. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 195 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8609-0 (9780719086090)
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Person
Siobhan Keenan is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University. -- .
Content
The Emperor's Favourite -- .