The Accession of James I the Accession of James I Historical and Cultural Consequences

The Accession of James I The Accession of james I Historical and Cultural Consequences Edited by Glenn Burgess Rowland Wymer and Jason Lawrence Selection, editorial matter, and Introduction ©Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer and jason lawrence 2006 All other chapters © contributors 2006 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-1-4039-4899-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting Limited copying issued by the Copyright licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, london W1T 4lP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be Liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The accession of james I: historical and cultural consequences /edited by Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer, and jason Lawrence. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. james I, King of England, 1566-1625. 2. Great Britain-History james I, 1603-1625. 3. Monarchy-Great Britain-History- 17th century. 4. Great Britain-Civilization-17th century. 5. Great Britain-Politics and government-1603-1625. 6. Great Britain Kings and rulers. I. Burgess, Glenn, 1961- II. Wymer, Rowland. Ill. lawrence, jason, 1969- DA391.A 185 2006 941.06'1-dc22 2006041732 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 In memory of Professor Conrad Russell Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors X Introduction xiii Glenn Burgess, Jason Lawrence, and Rowland Wymer 1 1603: The End of English National Sovereignty 1 Conrad Russell 2 'Representing the awefull authoritie of soveraigne Majestie': Monarchs and Mayors in Anthony Munday's The Triumphes of Re-united Britania 15 Tracey Hill 3 The Jacobean Union Controversy and King Lear 34 Philip Schwyzer 4 Radical Britain: David Hume of Godscroft and the Challenge to the jacobean British Vision 48 Arthur Williamson 5 The Happier Marriage Partner: The Impact of the Union of the Crowns on Scotland 69 fenny Wormald 6 London or the World? The Paradox of Culture in (post-) jacobean Scotland 88 Roderick f. Lyall 7 'Twice done and then done double': Equivocation and the Catholic Recusant Hostess in Shakespeare's Macbeth 101 Matthew Baynham 8 The Romans in Britain, 1603-1614 113 fohn Kerrigan 9 Rex Pacificus, Robert Cecil, and the 1604 Peace with Spain 140 Pauline Croft vii viii Contents 10 1603 and the Discourse of Favouritism 155 Curtis Perry 11 The Essex Myth in Jacobean England 177 Maureen King 12 The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke's British Jurisprudence 187 Daniel f. Hulsebosch Index 208 Acknowledgements The editors would like to record their thanks to the British Academy, whose funding contributed to the preparation of the volume, to the University of Hull, which also provided support, to Dr Jane Kingsley-Smith for her assistance in the initial stages, and to Lynsey McCulloch, who compiled the index. The book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Conrad Russell. We are grateful to Professor Russell's family, who have assisted us in making it possible to include his essay in the book, and to Dr Kenneth Fincham for his work in preparing the chapter for publication. ix Notes on Contributors Matthew Baynham read Law at Brasenose College, Oxford, and Theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, before entering the Anglican ministry. After 15 years of parish ministry, he studied for his M.Phil. at the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham before moving to chaplaincy in higher education. He is at present Associate Chaplain at the University of Liverpool and Senior Resident Tutor at Liverpool Hope University College. Glenn Burgess taught from 1988 to 1994 at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He is currently Professor of History and Head of Department at the University of Hull. His publications include The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought, 1603-1642 (1992) and Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (1996). Pauline Croft is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, Uni versity of London. She has published widely on late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Britain: her most recent book is King James (Palgrave Macmillan 2003). Tracey Hill is Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Her research interests are in the field of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cultural history, specialising in the works of Anthony Munday and in the literary culture of early modern London. She is the author of Anthony Munday and Civic Culture (2004) and a number of articles on Munday, The Booke of Sir Thomas More, and Renaissance history plays; she has also edited two collections of essays. Daniel J. Hulsebosch is a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He received his A.B. from Colgate University, a J.D. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Con stituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (2005), as well as several articles on the legal and constitutional history of the British Empire and the early United States. John Kerrigan is Professor of English at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. Among his publications are Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996), which won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, On Shakespeare and Early Modem Literature: Essays (2001), and a study of seventeenth-century British-Irish anglophone literature in relation to nation-building and state formation, Archipelagic English (2006). X Notes on Contributors xi Maureen King teaches early modern literature at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She has published articles on various sixteenth- and seventeenth-century topics, as well as on fantasy and science fiction. Jason Lawrence is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. He has written on Samuel Daniel, Shakespeare, and John Marston, and his book 'Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?': Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modem England was published in 2005. Roderick J. Lyall is Emeritus Professor of Literatures in English at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He previously taught at Massey University (NZ) and the University of Glasgow, where he was Head of the Department of Scottish Literature from 1982 to 1994. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Scottish texts; his study of Alexander Montgomerie (d. 1598) is scheduled to be published in 2006. Curtis Perry is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. In addition to articles on a variety of topics, he is the author of The Making of Jacobean Culture (1997) and editor of Material Culture and Cultural Mater ia/isms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2001). His book Literature and Favoritism in Early Modem England is scheduled to be published in early 2006. Conrad Russell (the 5th Earl Russell) was Professor of British History at King's College London until his retirement in 2002. He had previously taught at Bedford College, University of London, and at Yale University, and was Astor Professor of British History, University College London, from 1984 to 1990. His major works include Parliaments and English Politics 1621-1629 (1979), his Ford Lectures published as The Causes of the English Civil War (1990) and The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637-1642 (1991), and his collected essays Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 (1990). He was honoured with a festschrift edited by Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust, and Peter Lake, Politics, Religion and Popularity, published in 2002. Professor Russell died in October 2004, while this book was being prepared for publication. Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modem England and Wales (2004), and his current research focuses on archaeology and early modern literature. Arthur Williamson is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. He has written extensively about early modern Scottish and British political thought. Most recently he has published George Buchanan The Political Poetry (2000), The British Union: A Critical Edition and Translation of David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae (2003), both xii Notes on Contributors with Paul McGinnis, and Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection (2005), with Allan Macinnes. His study of Western eschatology Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Then: Prophecy and the Shaping of the Modern World is slated to appear in 2006. Jenny Wormald is an honorary fellow of Edinburgh University. She was previously Fellow and Tutor in History, St Hilda's College, Oxford; before that she was a Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow.

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