Edited by Paulina Kewes, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow of Jesus College Oxford, and Andrew McRae, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Exeter

Paulina Kewes is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. She is the author of This Great Matter of Succession: England's Debate, 1553-1603 (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) and Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710 (1998), and editor or co-editor of: Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003), The Uses of History in Early Modern England (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (2013) and Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England (2014). She is working on a study of monarchy and counsel on the early Elizabethan stage.

Andrew McRae is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter. His works on the literature and cultural history of early modern England include: God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (1996), Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (2004), and Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (2009). He is co-editor of Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources and is collaborating on a new scholarly edition of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. Professor McRae is Dean of the Exeter Doctoral College.

Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford
Alastair Bellany, Rutgers University
David Colclough, Queen Mary University of London
B. J. Cook, British Museum
Paul Hammond, University of Leeds
Helmer Helmers, University of Amsterdam
Christopher Highley, Ohio State University
Joseph Hone, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Paulina Kewes, Jesus College, Oxford
Mark Knights, University of Warwick
Richard A. McCabe, Oxford University
Andrew McRae, University of Exeter
Henry Power, University of Exeter
Jane Rickard, University of Leeds
R. Malcolm Smuts, University of Massachusetts Boston
John West, University of Warwick
Steven N. Zwicker, Washington University, St Louis

"This volume is a fine example of contemporary early modern studies." - John Spurr, Swansea University, MILTON QUARTERLY

"The essays collected in this volume offer an expansive, engaging, and significant resource...This volume will prove incredibly valuable to students and scholars looking at the implementation of soft power both imagined and actual." - Hope Frew-Costa, Restoration

"Each of the sixteen essays in the collection will prove significant ... Stuart Succession Literature is a powerful book in the revisionist tradition." - Arthur Williamson, Huntington Library Quarterly

"The diversity of the material examined here is one of the strengths of the volume, and builds on the monumental scholarship of Kevin Sharpe, to whom the collection is dedicated. This is a stimulating volume that maintains excellent standards of scholarship throughout, despite the relatively large number of contributors." - David Coast, Journal of British Studies

"Stuart Succession Literature is a powerful book in the revisionist tradition." - Arthur Williamson, Huntington Library Quarterly

"Stuart Succession Literature is the crowning output of a 4-year AHRC-funded project... [A] particular strength is the sustained attention in many chapters to the use and re-use of texts over time, not infrequently for partisan ends. Stuart Succession Literature makes visible once more just how prevalent were the concerns of early modern kingship and succession in the literary imagination." - Sebastiaan Verweij, The Review of English Studies

"The all-star team of contributing scholars invites high expectations and amply fulfills them." - D.M. Moore, CHOICE

"[T]he volume is a series of thoroughly engaging and impressive essays that leaves a reader in no doubt that Stuart successions mattered and that many important areas surrounded successions and succession literature remain to be pursued." - Harry Spillane, Royal Studies Journal