A Mirror for Magistrates

A Modernized and Annotated Edition

Scott C. Lucas

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781107040014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316998021
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistrates captivated readers and led numerous poets and playwrights to create their own Mirror-inspired works on the fallen figures of England's past. This modernized and annotated edition of Baldwin's collection - the first such edition ever published - provides modern readers with a clear and easily accessible text of the work. It also provides much-needed scholarly elucidations of its contents and glosses of its most difficult lines and unfamiliar words. The volume permits students of early modern literature and history to view Baldwin's work in a new light, allowing them to re-assess its contents and its poems' appeal to several generations of early modern readers and authors, including William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Baldwin’s Dedication
• Prose 1
• Tragedy 1 ‘Robert Tresilian’
• Prose 2
• Tragedy 2 ‘The Two Rogers’
• Prose 3
• Tragedy 3 ‘Thomas of Woodstock’
• Prose 4
• Tragedy 4 ‘Lord Mowbray’
• Prose 5
• Tragedy 5 ‘King Richard II’
• Prose 6
• Tragedy 6 ‘Owen Glendour’
• Prose 7
• Tragedy 7 ‘Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland’
• Prose 8
• Tragedy 8 ‘Richard, Earl of Cambridge’
• Prose 9
• Tragedy 9 ‘Thomas Montagu, Earl of Salisbury’
• Prose 10
• Tragedy 10 ‘King James I’
• Prose 11
• Tragedy 11 ‘William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk’
• Prose 12
• Tragedy 12 ‘Jack Cade’
• Prose 13
• Tragedy 13 ‘Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York’
• Prose 14
• Tragedy 14 ‘Lord Clifford’
• Prose 15
• Tragedy 15 ‘John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester’
• Prose 16
• Tragedy 16 ‘Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick’
• Prose 17
• Tragedy 17 ‘King Henry VI’
• Prose 18
• Tragedy 18 ‘George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence’
• Prose 19
• Tragedy 19 ‘King Edward IV’
• Prose 20
• Prose 21
• Tragedy 20 ‘Anthony Woodville, Lord Rivers and Scales’
• Prose 22
• Tragedy 21 ‘Lord Hastings’
• Prose 23
• Tragedy 22a The Induction
• Tragedy 22b ‘Henry, Duke of Buckingham’
• Prose 24
• Tragedy 23 ‘Collingbourne’
• Prose 25
• Tragedy 24 ‘Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester’
• Prose 26
• Tragedy 25 ‘Shore’s Wife’
• Prose 27
• Tragedy 26 ‘Edmund, Duke of Somerset’
• Prose 28
• Tragedy 27 ‘The Blacksmith’
• Prose 29
• Prose 30, First Version
• Prose 30, Second Version
• Tragedy 28 ‘Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester’
• Prose 31, 1578 Cancel Edition
• Tragedy 29 ‘Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester’
• Prose 32
• Appendices
• Appendix 1 Printer’s Note to A Memorial of Such Princes (1554)
• Appendix 2 Table of Contents, A Mirror for Magistrates (1559)
• Appendix 3 Additional Table of Contents, A Mirror for Magistrates (1563) Magistrates (1563)
• Appendix 4 Principal Battles of the Wars of the Roses
• Glossary ‘False Friends’ and Archaic Past-tense Verb Forms
• Explanatory Notes