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Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and StuartEngland, 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Baldwinâs Dedication
- Prose 1
- Tragedy 1 âRobert Tresilianâ
- Prose 2
- Tragedy 2 âThe Two Rogersâ
- Prose 3
- Tragedy 3 âThomas of Woodstockâ
- Prose 4
- Tragedy 4 âLord Mowbrayâ
- Prose 5
- Tragedy 5 âKing Richard IIâ
- Prose 6
- Tragedy 6 âOwen Glendourâ
- Prose 7
- Tragedy 7 âHenry Percy, Earl of Northumberlandâ
- Prose 8
- Tragedy 8 âRichard, Earl of Cambridgeâ
- Prose 9
- Tragedy 9 âThomas Montagu, Earl of Salisburyâ
- Prose 10
- Tragedy 10 âKing James Iâ
- Prose 11
- Tragedy 11 âWilliam de la Pole, Duke of Suffolkâ
- Prose 12
- Tragedy 12 âJack Cadeâ
- Prose 13
- Tragedy 13 âRichard Plantagenet, Duke of Yorkâ
- Prose 14
- Tragedy 14 âLord Cliffordâ
- Prose 15
- Tragedy 15 âJohn Tiptoft, Earl of Worcesterâ
- Prose 16
- Tragedy 16 âRichard Neville, Earl of Warwickâ
- Prose 17
- Tragedy 17 âKing Henry VIâ
- Prose 18
- Tragedy 18 âGeorge Plantagenet, Duke of Clarenceâ
- Prose 19
- Tragedy 19 âKing Edward IVâ
- Prose 20
- Prose 21
- Tragedy 20 âAnthony Woodville, Lord Rivers and Scalesâ
- Prose 22
- Tragedy 21 âLord Hastingsâ
- Prose 23
- Tragedy 22a The Induction
- Tragedy 22b âHenry, Duke of Buckinghamâ
- Prose 24
- Tragedy 23 âCollingbourneâ
- Prose 25
- Tragedy 24 âRichard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucesterâ
- Prose 26
- Tragedy 25 âShoreâs Wifeâ
- Prose 27
- Tragedy 26 âEdmund, Duke of Somersetâ
- Prose 28
- Tragedy 27 âThe Blacksmithâ
- Prose 29
- Prose 30, First Version
- Prose 30, Second Version
- Tragedy 28 âEleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucesterâ
- Prose 31, 1578 Cancel Edition
- Tragedy 29 âHumphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucesterâ
- Prose 32
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Printerâs 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 âFalse Friendsâ and Archaic Past-tense Verb Forms
- Explanatory Notes