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Tables of Contents for Hostage to Fortune
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
5
1
A Note on Dating
6
1
Preface to the American Edition
7
4
Introduction: A Life of Virtue and Mischief
11
12
PART I THE BOLD BIRTH OF OPPORTUNITY: 1561--1588
Much Hoped Imps
23
16
A Protestant Abroad
39
28
Neither Well Left nor Well Friended
67
27
Strange Bedfellows: Consorting with Catholics
94
27
PART II THE COURTSHIP OF FAVOUR: 1588--1603
Design Dissembled: Brotherly Love
121
25
A Tired Sea-sick Suitor: The Trials of Preferment
146
32
Getting Nowhere: The Armour of Patience Pressed
178
31
Losing Ground: Matter of Charge and Accusation
209
24
Flying with Waxen Wings: The Final Fall of Essex
233
32
PART III A PRECARIOUS POWER: 1603--1621
Dawn of the Deserving World
265
34
No Stage-friends: Making Connections
299
33
Being Politic: The King's Business
332
23
Exchanging Favours: Somerset to Villiers
355
33
Much Ado, and a Great Deal of World
388
28
A New Course of Thriving: Lord Chancellor Bacon
416
28
Franciscan Martyr: Bribery, Buggery and the Fall of Francis Bacon
444
29
PART IV INVENTING POSTERITY: 1621--1626
Leisure without Loitering: Bacon's Quinquennium
473
29
Debt, Drugs and Bodysnatching: Bacon's Legacy
502
23
Notes
525
69
Bibliography
594
25
Index
619