List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Christopher Marlowe and the Succession to the English Crown; 2 Romans and Fairies; 3 Robin Hood and the King's Two Bodies; 4 Female Transmission, Female Taint; 5 Antonios and Stewards; 6 One King, Two Kingdoms?; 7 John Ford and the 1630s; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
Summary
Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its disguised identities and oblique relationship to reality, was a safe way to air it. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which plays-from Marlowe's and Shakespeare's to Webster's and Ford's-reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession
