Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; Note on Texts and Terminology ; Introduction ; I ; II ; III ; 1 Antichrist and the Whore in Early Modern England: Cultures of Interpretation ; I ; II ; III
2 'What News from Babylon?': Marston's The Dutch Courtesan (1605) and the Spanish Peace I ; II ; III ; 3 'Mere Idolatry'?: Resistance and Rome in Middleton's The Lady's Tragedy (1610) ; I ; II ; III
4 'Occultus Rex': Caroline Politics and Imperial Kingship in Massinger's Believe as You List (1631) I ; II ; III ; IV ; V ; 5 'Purple Pride': War, Episcopacy, and Shirley's The Cardinal (1641) ; I ; II ; III ; IV
6 'Rebellion Orthodox': Arbitrary Rule and Liberty in Dryden and Lee's The Duke of Guise (1682) I ; II ; III ; Conclusion: Drama and the Legacies of Anti-Catholicism ; II ; Select Bibliography ; Primary Sources ; Secondary Sources ; Index
Summary
This book studies the varied political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama
