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The Emperor's Favourite, which appears in print for the first time, is one of the four anonymous seventeenth-century plays bound in a single volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton. Tentatively attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642), the play uses the story of the rise and fall of Crispinus, favourite of the Emperor Nero, to mount a critique of the influence of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628) at the courts of James I and Charles I. The volume is illustrated with ten color plates from the manuscript and from John Newdigate's 1628 Parliamentary Diary.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Emperor'S Favourite
• Author: Siobhan Keenan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780719086090
• ISBN: 0719086094
• ID: 04648659
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 722 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 199 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2010

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