Leadership and Elizabethan Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Queen Elizabeth I of England: Monarchical Leadership in Action

   • Susan Doran

   Pages 1-15

3. Of Poetry and Politics: The Managerial Culture of Sixteenth-Century England

   • Norman L. Jones

   Pages 17-36

4. Alla Prudentissima Et Virtuosissima Reina Elisabetta: An Englishman’s Italian Dedication to the Queen

   • Charlotte Bolland

   Pages 37-49

5. Mary Queen of Scots and the Northern Rebellion of 1569

   • K. J. Kesselring

   Pages 51-72

6. Queen Elizabeth’s Leadership Abroad: The Netherlands in the 1570s

   • Peter Iver Kaufman

   Pages 73-87

7. Leadership in the 1590s

   • Janet Dickinson

   Pages 89-101

8. Imagination and Leadership in Elizabethan England

   • Todd Butler

   Pages 103-119

9. Henry Herbert, Second Earl of Pembroke and Noble Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces

   • Neil Younger

   Pages 121-139

10. Swingebreeches and Schollers: Images of Pastoral Leadership in Elizabethan Puritan Dialogues

    • Timothy Scott McGinnis

    Pages 141-155

11. Commerce and Community: Emergent Forms of Economic Leadership in Elizabeth’s England

    • Ritchie D. Kendall

    Pages 157-173

12. The Perils of Political Showmanship: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great

    • Meg Pearson

    Pages 175-190

13. Subject, Servant, and Sovereign: Servant Leadership in Elizabethan Government and Shakespeare’s King John

    • Kristin M. S. Bezio

    Pages 191-211

14. “If Power Change Purpose”: Authority, Leadership, and Religion in Measure for Measure

    • Karen Bruhn

    Pages 213-227

15. Back Matter

    Pages 229-237

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Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama.

"A novel collection that deftly balances contemporary expectations of monarchy, key questions about Elizabeth's queenship, and wider issues about the skills and qualities of a good leader without ever falling into anachronism. These essays offer new assessments of the nature of Elizabeth's governance and will stimulate further the already lively debates on one of British history's most iconic figures and the nature of leadership. An ideal collection for the Elizabethan specialist, the student, the political scientist - and, perhaps, even the politician." - Natalie Mears, Professor of History, University of Durham, UK

"This fascinating collection of essays assesses the role of leadership in Elizabethan England across a range of spheres, from church and state to the economy and the theatre. A series of inter- and cross-disciplinary interventions re-evaluate the relative significance of personal rulership and of popular participation in the process of governing the late Tudor polity in international, national, and regional contexts. Kaufman has brought together a hugely impressive team of scholars whose contributions cumulatively encourage a rethink about just how 'republican' the 'monarchical republic' of Elizabeth I could ever really have been." - Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library, USA

"The well-documented and fascinating essays in Leadership and Elizabethan Culture make a valuable contribution to the fieldsof leadership studies, early modern diplomacy, and images of monarchy, adding to our understanding of the ideas and mechanisms behind English government of this period . . . As Susan Doran has observed, corporate strategists in recent years have used Elizabeth as a 'model for good leadership'. Entrepreneurs and moguls could learn much from the management tactics examined in these essays." - Journal of the Northern Renaissance

Peter Iver Kaufman is Charles Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA, and Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

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