Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War - Hardcover

Reprobates; The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. [10], 549, [1] pages. Includes Introduction, Notes, Further Reading, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters cover Fathers and Sons; The Quixotic Prince; The End of Steenie; Dancing to the Drum; Backslidings; Blind Mouths; The Court and the Covenant; Northern Discoveries; Plots and Prodigals; Incivilities of War; Sulby Hedge; Angling for Quiet; Twigs of Bay; and Aubrey. John Stubbs was born in 1977 and studied English at Oxford and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge where he completed a doctorate in 2005. Donne: The Reformed Soul was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Reprobates was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. John Stubbs brings alive the vibrant cast of characters that was at the center of the English Civil War. He sheds new light on this ground-breaking group of men, on their world and their journeys through it, in peace and war, from the Blackfriars Playhouse to the battlefields of King Charles's kingdoms. Derived from a Kirkus review: Vastly erudite work dealing with the heirs of Shakespeare and their part in fostering the English Civil War. Initially, the term Cavalier indicated a well-dressed gallant, but that designation quickly deteriorated into a pejorative illustrating a petulant, disdainful, violent-minded dandy. Stubbs focuses primarily on the lives and works of poet John Suckling and William Davenant, Shakespeare's godson. These two in particular were witnesses to an age of prodigals and playboys. Stubbs shifts between Suckling and his contemporaries throughout the first half of the book, interjecting the politics and explanations of the works of James Howell, Henry Jermyn, Thomas Hobbes and Inigo Jones, as well as a wealth of contemporary writers. Even as he bounces around among authors, artists Van Dyck and Rubens, and the "evil ministers" Laud and Wentworth, Stubbs artistically weaves in the history of the players and their times and especially the deep hatred of everything "papist." At the same time, he assumes that readers know the basic story of the Scottish Rebellion and the English Civil War. There is quick mention of the battles at Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby, leading to the eventual beheading of Charles I and the restoration of Charles II. A detailed, scholarly work. First American Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Artikel-Nr. 81249

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