Stuart Succession Literature: Moments and Transformations

Paulina Kewes is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. She is the author of This Great Matter of Succession: England's Debate, 1553-1603 (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) and Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710 (1998), and editor or co-editor of: Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003), The Uses of History in Early Modern England (2006), The OxfordHandbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (2013) and Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (2014). She is working on a study of monarchy and counsel on the early Elizabethan stage.Andrew McRae is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter. His works on the literature and cultural history of early modern England include: God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (1996), Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (2004), and Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (2009). He is co-editor of Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources and iscollaborating on a new scholarly edition of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. Professor McRae is Dean of the Exeter Doctoral College.