Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration 1st Edition by Alessandro Arienzo,Alessandra Petrina ISBN 1409436721 9781409436720

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ISBN 10: 1409436721 

ISBN 13: 9781409436720

Author: Alessandro Arienzo, Alessandra Petrina

Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli’s works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli’s books – including but not limited to the Prince – strongly influenced the contemporary political debate. The first section discusses early reactions to Machiavelli’s works, focusing on authors such as Reginald Pole and William Thomas, depicting their complex interaction with Machiavelli. In section two, different features of Machiavelli’s reading in Tudor literary and political culture are discussed, moving well beyond the traditional image of the tyrant or of the evil Machiavel. Machiavelli’s historiography and republicanism and their influences on Tudor culture are discussed with reference to topical authors such as Walter Raleigh, Alberico Gentili, Philip Sidney; his role in contemporary dramatic writing, especially as concerns Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, is taken into consideration. The last section explores Machiavelli’s influence on English political culture in the seventeenth century, focusing on reason of state and political prudence, and discussing writers such as Henry Parker, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Thomas Hobbes and Anthony Ascham. Overall, contributors put Machiavelli’s image in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England into perspective, analyzing his role within courtly and prudential politics, and the importance of his ideological proposal in the tradition of republicanism and parliamentarianism.

Table of contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1 Reginald Pole and the Reception of the Principe in Henrician England
Chapter 2 Stolen Words to Train a Boy King
Chapter 3 Machiavelli in The Quintesence of Wit and his English Military Readers
Chapter 4 Sir Walter Raleigh’s Machiavelli
Chapter 5 Machiavellianism in Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta
Chapter 6 When Pretence Rules over Essence
Chapter 7 Henry V and the Just War
Chapter 8 Republicanism and Religious Dissent
Chapter 9 From Machiavellian Policy to Parliamentary Reason of State
Chapter 10 Order, Conflict and Liberty
Chapter 11 Machiavelli’s Discorsi and Hobbes’s Leviathan
Epilogue

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