The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613–1680

1. Introduction
Heather Wolfe

Part I. The Tragedy of Mariam

2. Private Lyrics in Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam
Ilona Bell

3. Mariam And Early Modern Discourses Of Martyrdom
Erin E. Kelly

4. Elizabeth Cary’s Historical Conscience: The Tragedy of Mariam and Thomas Lodge’s Josephus
Alison Shell

Part II. Edward II

5. “Royal Fever” and “The Giddy Commons”: Cary’s History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II and the Buckingham Phenomenon
Curtis Perry

6. “Fortune is a Stepmother”: Gender and Political Discourse in Elizabeth Cary’s History of Edward II
Mihoko Suzuki

7. A Bibliographical Palimpsest: The Post-Publication History of the 1680 Octavo, The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince King Edward II
Jesse G. Swan

8. From Manuscript to Printed Text: Telling and Retelling the History of Edward II
Margaret Reeves

Part III. Other Writings

9. “To Informe Thee Aright”: Translating Du Perron for English Religious Debates
Karen L. Nelson

10. Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle
R. W. Serjeantson

11. “Reader, Stand Still and Look, lo Here I am”: Elizabeth Cary’s Funeral Elegy “On the Duke of Buckingham”
Nadine N. W. Akkerman

Part IV. Litreary Patronage and Legacies

12. “A More Worthy Patronesse”: Elizabeth Cary and Ireland
Deana Rankin

13. “To Have Her Children With Her”: Elizabeth Cary and Familial Influence
Marion Wynne-Davies

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature