Notes
- McEachern , Clare . 1996 . The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612 138 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,), p. Unless otherwise noted, all quotations from Drayton's works are from J. William Hebel (ed.), The Works of Michael Drayton, 5 vols (Oxford, 1931–41), subsequently ‘Hebel’.
- Cogswell , Thomas . 1991 . ‘The Path to Elizium “Lately Discovered”: Drayton and the Early Stuart Court’ . Huntington Library Quarterly , 54 : 133 – 55 . 208; Anne Barton, ‘Harking Back to Elizabeth: Ben Jonson and Caroline Nostalgia’, English Literary History, 48 (1981), 706–31; Richard C. McCoy, ‘Old English Honour in an Evil Time: Aristocratic Principle in the 1620s’ in R. Malcolm Smuts (ed.), The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp.
- Rees , Joan . 1976 . “ [Review of Richard F. Hardin ” . In Michael Drayton and the Passing of Elizabethan England 168 (Kansas, The University Press of Kansas, 1973)], Notes and Queries, 23, 268. Curtis Perry, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997), p.
- Tylus , Jane . 1990 . “ ‘Jacobean Poetry and Lyric Disappointment’ in Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katharine E. Maus (eds) ” . In Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry 189 (Chicago, 111., University of Chicago Press,), p.
- McEachern . The Poetics of English Nationhood 140
- Ibid. 173
- 2000 . Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages under James VI & I 87 – 144 . For an expanded discussion and bibliography regarding the prince see Tristan Marshall, (Manchester, Manchester University Press,), pp.
- Kamps , Ivo . 1996 . Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama 119 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,), p.
- 1987 . Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England 81 – 2 . R. Malcolm Smuts, (Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press,), pp.
- Cogswell . ‘The Path to Elizium “Lately Discovered”; McCoy, ‘Old English Honour in an Evil Time’.
- Norden , John . 1593 . Speculum Britanniae. The First part: an historicall discription of Middlesex London
- Marshall . 1998 . Theatre and Empire 67 – 78 . See pp.—, 98–102, 108–114, and Tristan Marshall, ‘”That's the misery of peace”: Representations of Martialism in the Jacobean Public Theatre 1608–14’, The Seventeenth Century, 13:1, 1–21.
- Drayton , Michael . 1932 . ‘An Ode Written In The Peake’ in Hebel, II, 365, line 12.
- Speed , John . 1611 . Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain 138 London See also Andrew Hadfield, ‘Briton and Scythian: Tudor Representations of Irish Origins’, Irish Historical Studies, 28 (1993), 390–408.
- Marshall . Theatre and Empire 130 – 1 . See pp.—, 156–60.
- Brown , Keith M. 1994 . “ ‘The Vanishing Emperor: British Kingship and its Decline 1603–1707’ in Roger A. Mason (ed.) ” . In Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603 83 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,), p.
- The Making of Jacobean Culture 32 – 6 . See, for example, Perry's discussion of Ben Jonson's ‘Panegyre on the Happie Entrance of James’ in pp.
- Ibid. 67
- Norbrook , David . 1984 . Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance 175 – 214 . (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul,), especially pp.
- Drayton , Michael . 1931 . To the Maiestie of King James. A gratulatorie Poem (London, 1603) in Hebel, I, 472, lines 51–8. On the imperial context of Jacobean writing see Marshall, Theatre and Empire.
- Hebel . 1931 . I, 474, lines 114, 137–46.
- 1932 . Ibid. 475 – 35 . lines 165–8. See Bernard H. Newdigate, Michael Drayton and his Circle (Oxford, 1961), pp. 124-; Michael Drayton, ‘The Owle’ in Hebel, II (1932), 477–514; Michael Drayton, ‘To Master George Sandys, Treasurer for the English Colony in Virginia’ in Hebel, III, 206, lines 19–21.
- Drayton , Michael . 1612 . Poly-Olbion 366 London in Hebel, IV (1933), 334, lines 186–92 and p., lines 130–4; Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited (Boston, 1990), p. 87
- Drayton , Michael . 1957 . “ ‘To the Virginian Voyage’ in Hebel, II, 363, lines 21, 24, 41–2, 1–8. On Drayton's direct use of Hakluyt's ” . In Principal Navigations see Gerhard Friedrich, ‘The Genesis of Michael Drayton's Ode “To the Virginian Voyage’”, Modern Language Notes, 72, 401–6.
- Drayton . 1597 . Englands Heroicall Epistles London in Hebel, II, 170, lines 75–82.
- Hebel . II, 530, lines 115–20. Prior to the cited 1600 revised version of the text the last line read ‘And thou under thy feet mayst tread that foul seven-headed beast’.
- Drayton . Poly-Olbion 173 in Hebel, IV, 229, lines 417–9, noted in McEachern, The Poetics of English Nationhood, p.
- Drayton . Poly-Olbion in Hebel, IV, 338, lines 346–52.
- Ibid. 366 – 79 . p. 379, line 633.
- Ibid. 7 line 232.
- 1992 . Ibid. 76 – 7 . Anon, Tom a Lincoln, ed. G. R. Proudfoot (Oxford, Malone Society Reprints,). For a full discussion of the play see Marshall, Theatre and Empire, pp. 98–102 and Muriel C. Bradbrook, A New Jacobean Play from the Inns of Court’, Shakespearean Research and Opportunities, 7–8 (1972–4), 1–5.
- 2000 . ‘The Shepheard's Nation’ On the literary circle of Browne, Wither and Brooke see Michelle O'Callaghan, (Oxford, Clarendon Press,).
- Drayton , Michael . ‘To the Cambro-Britans, and their Harpe, his Ballad of Agincourt’ in Hebel, II, 378, lines 117–120.
- Politics and Literary Culture in Jacobean England. His circle of friends and in particular his association with the Mermaid Tavern group is a matter to be dealt with in a forthcoming study by this writer
- 1611 . Coryats Crudities London There were 56 contributions in all. Thomas Coryate, (Repr. Glasgow, 1905), I, 39. The dedication is also in Hebel, I, 500–1.
- Newdigate . Michael Drayton and his Circle 147 154
- 1985 . Michael Drayton and his circle 112 – 23 . On Drayton's financial stake in the Whitefriars playhouse see Newdigate, pp.—and William Ingram, ‘The Playhouse as an Investment, 1607–14: Thomas Woodford and the Whitefriars’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 2, 209–30: Gordon McMullan, The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher (Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), p. 63
- Michael Drayton and his Circle 160 The heads of the Prince's household recommended to the Chancellor of the Exchequer persons ‘whoe by the comaundement of the late prince without anie graunte in wrytinge were allowed yerely somes by way of Anuyties or Pencons out of the privie purse of the said late prince: viz. Joshua Silvester a poett xx” Mr. Drayton a poett xli…’ Cited in Newdigate, p.
- Drayton , Michael . ‘To my most Dearely-Loved Friend Henery Reynolds Esquire, of Poets and Poesie’ in Hebel, III, 230, lines 163–170.
- Newdigate . Michael Drayton and his Circle 137
- Ibid. 177
- Ibid. 188 – 9 .
- 1613 . Teares on the death of Meliades Edinburgh Drummond, a poet himself, wrote upon Prince Henry's death as well as editing a collection of elegies to the Prince, Mausoleum, or the Choisest Flowres of the Epitaphs (Edinburgh, 1613). His Forth Feasting. A Panegyricke to the kings most excellent majestie (Edinburgh, 1617) commemorated James's visit to Scotland in that year. See Robert Cummings, ‘Drummond's Forth Feasting: A Panegyric for King James in Scotland’, The Seventeenth Century, 2:1 (1987), 1–18.
- Newdigate . Michael Drayton and his Circle 201 – 2 .
- Drayton , Michael . ‘An Elegie upon the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton’ in Hebel, III, 219, lines 7–8.
- Marshall . 1978 . Theatre and Empire 87 – 144 . See pp.—and Barbara C. Ewell, ‘Drayton's Poly-Olbion: England's Body Immortalized’, Studies in Philology, 75, 307–8.
- Hardin . Michael Drayton and the Passing of Elizabethan England 65
- Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance 195 – 214 . He shared this idea with Browne and Wither whose writing during the middle years of James's reign indeed came to eulogize a more virtuous Britain via the pastoral genre. See Norbrook, pp.
- Drayton . Poly-Olbion in Hebel, IV, vii.
- Helgerson , Richard . Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England 107 – 47 . (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. McEachern, The poetics of English nationhood, 1590–1612, p. 166
- Drayton . Poly-Olbion in Hebel, iy 21, lines 9–15.
- Ibid. 207 – 8 . lines 263–8.
- Daniel , Samuel . 1613 . The First Part of the Historie of England London sig. B4r.
- Drayton . Poly-Olbion 99 in Hebel, IV, 98, line 49; p., lines 62–8; p. 107. James is referred to again when Drayton arrives in Wales: And he that was by heaven appointed to unite (After that tedious warre) the red Rose and the white, A Tudor was of thine, and native of thy Mon, From whom descends that King now sitting on her Throane. (Ibid., p. 178, lines 367–70).
- Ibid. 140 lines 39–42, 49–51, 55–8.
- Marshall . Theatre and Empire 52 – 86 .
- Drayton . Poly-Olbion in Hebel, IV 141, lines 81–8.
- Ibid. 147 lines 309–10. On North and South Britons see, for example, A Proclamation declaring what Flaggs South and North Britaines shall beare at Sea [Westminster 12 April 1606] in which the King considered how ‘some difference hath arisen betweene our Subjects of South and North Britaine’. James F. Larkin and Paul L. Hughes (eds), Stuart Royal Proclamations, I (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973), 135; p. 19. Norman Farmer, ‘Fulke Greville and Sir John Coke: an Exchange of Letters on a History Lecture and Certain Latin Verses on Sir Philip Sidney’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 33 (1969/70), 218.
- McEachern . The poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612, p. 167.
- Helgerson . Forms of Nationhood 120
- Ibid. 129 140
- Ibid. 140
- Revard , Stella R . ‘The Design of Nature in Drayton's . Poly-Olbion’, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 , 17 (1977), 108–11.
- Masque of Beauty Thamesis had spoken at the first arch in the royal entry into London in 1604 in a device written by Jonson, and subsequently in his (1608). Samuel Daniel depicted Anne of Denmark in Tethys Festival (1610) as the Queen of the Ocean and her ladies as those same aqueous Britons, while Christopher Brooke referred to ‘Thestis raues, And bids her waues Bring all the Nimphes within her Emperie’ in his Two Elegies (1613). Samuel Daniel, Tethys Festival in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong (eds), Inigo Jones and the Theatre of the Stuart Court, vol. I (Berkeley and London, 1973). Christopher Brooke, Two Elegies, consecrated to the never-dying Memorie of the most worthily admyred; most hartily loued; and generally bewayled PRINCE; HENRY Prince of Wales (London, 1613), sig. E.
- Bergeron , David M. 1971 . English Civic Pageantry, 1558–1642 141 London
- Ibid. 142
- Munday , Anthony . 1605 . The Triumphs of Re-united Britania London in David M. Bergeron (ed.), Pageants and Entertainments of Anthony Munday: A Critical Edition (New York, Garland, 1985), lines 186–91.
- 1612 . History of Great Britaine 117 London In his Speed wrote of the Arthurian material: ‘such extremes are wee driuen vnto, that haue our relations onelie from them’ (p. 319) while of Brute he noted that he would ‘herein make doubt as many more of riper iudgement before me haue done’ (p. 386). D. R. Woolf, The Idea of History in Early Stuart England: Erudition, Ideology, and ‘The Light of Truth’ from the Accession of James I to the Civil War (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1990), p. See also Parker Duchemin, ‘”Barbarous ignorance and base detraction”: The Struggles of Michael Drayton’, Albion, 14 (1982), 118–38.
- Woolf . The Idea of History in Early Stuart England 62 110; p. 112. At Henry's request Hayward wrote his The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England (London, 1613).
- Woolf . The Idea of History in Early Stuart England 202 – 3 . Richard Rowlands [Verstegan ], A Restitution of Decayed Inteligence (1605), sigs t3v-t4r.
- Ibid. 90 – 93 .
- Ross , John . 1607 . Britannica, sive De Regibus veteris Britanniae 100 Frankfurt See T. D. Kendrick, British Antiquity (London, Methuen, 1950), p.
- Dekker , Thomas . 1612 . Troia Nova triumphans. London triumphing 159 London London's origins in the Trojan history were also noted by Bacon who referred to the city as being ‘here where Brute did build his Troynouant’ while Dekker had written ‘Troynovant, is now a sommer arbour’ for James's entry in 1604. See Vaughan Hart, Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts (London, Routledge, 1994), p.
- Stow , John . The Annales, or Generali Chronicle of England, begun first by maister lohn Stow… Edmund Howes (London, 1615), sigs. A3v-A4. Also see the same pages in the 1631 edition.
- Michael Drayton and the Passing of Elizabethan England 109 Quoted in Hardin, p.
- Cogswell . ‘The Path to Elizium “Lately Discovered’”, 217–8.
- Drayton . 239 ‘To Master George Sandys, Treasurer for the English Colony in Virginia’ in Hebel, III, 206, lines 9–10; Michael Drayton, ‘To Master William Jeffreys, Chaplaine to the Lord Ambassador in Spaine’ in ibid. p., lines 33–8.
- Barton . ‘Harking Back to Elizabeth’; Duchemin, ‘”Barbarous ignorance and base detraction’”, 137.
- Helgerson . 1951 . Forms of Nationhood 122 – 65 . A. L. Rowse, The England of Elizabeth (New York, Macmillan,), pp. 31-