Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560û1633

by Hamilton,Donna B.

• ISBN13: 9780754606079
• ISBN10: 0754606074
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time. Hamilton reinterprets Munday as a writer who began his career writing on behalf of the Catholic cause and subsequently negotiated for several decades the difficult terrain of an ever-changing CatholicProtestant cultural, religious, and political landscape.

Author Biography

Donna B. Hamilton is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Bibliographical Abbreviations	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	xv
1 Munday's First Works, 1577-80: Facts, Contexts and Speculation	1	(30)
Patronage networks in a changing political—religious context, 1577-79	2	(2)
Munday's writing before the trip to Rome, 1577-78	4	(3)
Munday's writing after the trip to Rome, 1579	7	(4)
Writing in the year of Campion's return, 1580	11	(20)
2 Munday and the English Response to the Jesuit Mission, 1581-88	31	(42)
Catholic print in 1581: shifting allegiances and changing alliances	32	(4)
Munday in 1581	36	(4)
Trials, executions and books in 1582	40	(13)
Mocking Leicester and courting Elizabeth, 1584-85	53	(9)
The queen's servant and messenger, 1586-88	62	(11)
3 The Translation of Iberian Chivalric Romances, 1581-1619	73	(40)
Overview	73	(7)
Palmerin of England, part 1	80	(6)
Political pamphlets, 1589-92	86	(3)
Palmendos and The first book of Amadis de Gaule, 1588-92	89	(5)
Years of transition, 1596-1602	94	(3)
The Munday romances and the Spanish match, 1615-19	97	(16)
4 Poet for the Theatre, 1590-1602	113	(40)
John a Kent and John a Cumber	114	(5)
Sir Thomas More	119	(7)
Writing for the Lord Admiral's Men	126	(3)
The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon	129	(3)
The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon	132	(5)
The first part of...Sir John Oldcastle	137	(16)
5 Writing for the City, 1602-33	153	(44)
City entertainments, 1602-23	154	(9)
A briefe chronicle, of the successe of times, 1611	163	(7)
The first revision of The survey of London, 1618	170	(7)
The second revision of The survey of London, 1633	177	(20)
Conclusion	197	(2)
Chronological Bibliography of the Works of Anthony Munday	199	(8)
Bibliography of Primary Sources	207	(12)
Bibliography of Secondary Sources	219	(30)
Index	249