{"product_id":"epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters-jackie-watson-9781474483384","title":"Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse","description":"Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, \u003ci\u003eEpistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters\u003c\/i\u003e re-examines what is meant by courtiership in the Jacobean period. With a particular focus on the years between 1609 and 1613, the book brings together many of the letters surrounding the scandal leading to Overbury's murder and provides an examination of epistolarity in the context of humanist and legal learning. Defining key themes of social mobility, homosociality and the legal power of James VI and I, it exposes the mechanisms by which men rose at his court and provides a context for a new reading of contemporary dramatic texts by Shakespeare, Webster and Chapman. The book argues that the changing performance of courtiership at James's court, the wider knowledge of that reflected in contemporary letters and consequently shifting attitudes, all alter the performance of courtiership in the playhouse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jackie Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474483380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474483384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Jackie Watson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083595194623,"sku":"9781474483384","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters-jackie-watson-9781474483384","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}