Curtis Breight challenges the view that Renaissance English rulers could not dominate their domestic population. He argues, alternatively, that the Elizabethan state was controlled by the Cecilian faction, which maintained power by focusing English energies outwardly. Cecilians launched relentless assaults by land and sea against England's neighbours. By the 1590s their policies had enriched a few yet destroyed countless people, and this book reads the drama of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in relation to ongoing national and international conflict.

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Curtis Breight

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Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction: Regnum Cecilianum - PART 1: STATE OF TERROR - State Power - Manifestations of State Power - PART 2: ELIZABETHAN COLD WARS - Cultures of Surveillance - Propaganda Wars and the English Succession Crisis - 'Danger is in Words': The Drama and Assassination of Christopher Marlowe - PART 3: ELIZABETHAN HOT WARS - 'We few, we happy few', or, Murdering our Men - Military Conflict Among the Elite - 'The Days of Villainy' - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index