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Tables of Contents for The Shepheard's Nation
Chapter/Section Title
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Introduction
1
25
The `Shepheards Nation': William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe (1614) and George Wither, The Shepherds Hunting (1615)
26
37
`Free are my lines': Pastoral Satire and the `shepheards nation'
26
6
`Our fellow Swaines': A Spenserian Print Community
32
9
`Court' and `Country'
41
7
Transforming Pastoral
48
15
Tyranny, Parliament, and the `Country': Christopher Brooke's the Ghost of Richard the Third (1614)
63
23
`Thus Deare Britannia Will I Sing of Thee': William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals
86
61
Britannia's Pastorals, 1613: Arcadia Reformed
88
13
Britannia's Pastorals, 1616
101
46
George Wither, Citizen Prophet
147
41
`My minde is my Kingdome'
148
14
`Freeborne-lines': Print, Politics, and the Marketplace
162
26
The `Evill Time': Spenserian Community in the 1620s
188
43
`I care not when there comes a Parliament'
190
13
`To my noble friend Master William Browne, of the evill time'
203
18
The `Den of Oblivion'
221
10
Conclusion
231
6
Appendix 1: Transcripts of the Examinations of Wither and the Stationers State Papers, Domestic
237
4
Appendix 2: Editions of Wither's Motto (1621)
241
1
Bibliography
242
25
Index
267