:Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England

Abstract

Introduction Derek Hirst and Richard Strier 1. 'I am Power': normal and magical politics in The Tempest Richard Strier 2. 'Void of storie': the struggle for insincerity in Herbert's prose and poetry Stanley Fish 3. Sir Kenelm Digby's rewritings of his life Jackson I. Cope 4. Thomas Hobbes and the Renaissance studia humanitatis Quentin Skinner 5. Casuistry and allegiance in the English Civil War Barbara Donagan 6. Thomas May and the narrative of civil war J. G. A. Pocock 7. Samuel Parker, Andrew Marvell and political culture, 1667-73 Derek Hirst 8. Sidney's Discourses on political imagoes and royalist iconography Victoria Silver Notes Index.