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A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES AND THE DE CASIBUS TRADITION THE MENTAL AND CULTURAL WORLD OF TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND Editors Paul Christiansen Camille Slights D.R. Woolf PAUL BUDRA A Mirror for Magistrates and the de casibus Tradition UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2000 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-4717-3 © Printed on acid-free paper Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Budra, Paul Vincent, 1957- A mirror for magistrates and the de casibus tradition (The mental and cultural world of Tudor and Stuart England) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8020-4717-3 i. Mirror for magistrates. 2. Great Britain - Historiography. 3. Great Britain - History - Sources. I. Title. II. Series. PR2199.M53B82 2000 821'.3 099-932870-0 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). Canada For Karen, my mirror This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi i Printing the Mirror 4 2 History 14 3 Tragedy and Fortune 39 4 Women 60 5 Drama 73 Notes 95 Bibliography 107 Index 115 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Parts of this book have appeared in journal form. 1 am grateful to the editors of Philological Quarterly and Renaissance & Reformation for per- mission to use this material. Parts of the introduction and chapter i appeared as The Mirror for Magistrates and the Shape of de casibus Tragedy' in English Studies 69/4 (1988): 303-12, used with permission of Swets & Zeitlinger. Parts of chapter 2 appeared as The Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of Readership/ in Studies in English Litera- ture, 1500-1900 32 (1992): 1-13, copyright SEL, reprinted by permission of Johns Hopkins University Press. Simon Fraser University has supported the production of this book with a President's Research Grant that allowed me to hire very fine research assistants. My thanks to them. I would like to thank the mem- bers of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, who heard the first rumblings of what would become this book and who offered sage advice and support. And many thanks to Professor Daniel Woolf, who has been especially supportive of this project. PAUL BUDKA
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