Elizabethan espionage : plotters and spies in the struggle between Catholicism and the crown / by Martin, Patrick H.

Table of Contents: “…The Persons-Campion Jesuit mission of 1580-1581 -- Tainted in blood -- A wolf by the ears -- The MP from Morpeth: gentleman pensioner and assassin -- Persecution of Catholic gentry -- Aboard the ambassador's boat -- Mary Stewart and the theatre of the world -- The Spanish Armada and English Catholics -- The Essex, Phelippes and Bacon intelligence initiative -- In Spanish lands: the Bisley-Moody Plot -- The Parliament of 1593: Sterrell and Marlowe -- Who can protect the queen? …”
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Spenser's Irish work : poetry, plantation and colonial reformation / by Herron, Thomas, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Spenser and the anxious critics -- Spenser's plantation life -- Planting reformation in Ireland : Walshe, Smith, Robinson, and Bryskett -- Spenser's heroic legacy in Munster verse : Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane -- Elemental violence and the Virgilian ladder -- Flourishing monarchs : Virgil's Georgics, Gavin Douglas, and the proem to The faerie queene -- Plain thinking and civic celebration in Book I -- Imperial coda : Elizabethan progress and The Mutabilitie cantos -- Pagan hound : Cⵣhulainn, the Souldan, and the Spanish Armada in Book V -- Taming Raleigh's beast : monastic dissolution and local politics in Book VI.…”