Acknowledgements A note on texts 1. 'Prerogative Pleasures': favoritism and monarchy in early modern England 2. Leicester and his ghosts 3. Amici Principis: imagining the good favorite 4. Poisoning favor 5. Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama 6. 'What pleased the prince': Edward II and the imbalanced constitution 7. Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history Afterword: 'In a true sense there is no Monarchy' Notes Index.
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