Curtis Perry is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997), the editor of Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2001), and has had numerous articles and chapters published on the subject of early modern English literature and culture.

"This welcome book will be particularly valuable for those pursuing study of the literature, politics and cultural history of early modern England." - Choice

• Acknowledgements; A note on texts; 1. 'Prerogative Pleasures': favoritism and monarchy in early modern England; 2. Leicester and his ghosts; 3. Amici Principis: imagining the good favorite; 4. Poisoning favor; 5. Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama; 6. 'What pleased the prince': Edward II and the imbalanced constitution; 7. Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history; Afterword: 'In a true sense there is no Monarchy'; Notes; Index.

Curtis Perry is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997), the editor of Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2001), and has had numerous articles and chapters published on the subject of early modern English literature and culture.

"This welcome book will be particularly valuable for those pursuing study of the literature, politics and cultural history of early modern England." - Choice

• Acknowledgements; A note on texts; 1. 'Prerogative Pleasures': favoritism and monarchy in early modern England; 2. Leicester and his ghosts; 3. Amici Principis: imagining the good favorite; 4. Poisoning favor; 5. Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama; 6. 'What pleased the prince': Edward II and the imbalanced constitution; 7. Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history; Afterword: 'In a true sense there is no Monarchy'; Notes; Index.

Curtis Perry is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997), the editor of Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2001), and has had numerous articles and chapters published on the subject of early modern English literature and culture.

"This welcome book will be particularly valuable for those pursuing study of the literature, politics and cultural history of early modern England." - Choice

• Acknowledgements; A note on texts; 1. 'Prerogative Pleasures': favoritism and monarchy in early modern England; 2. Leicester and his ghosts; 3. Amici Principis: imagining the good favorite; 4. Poisoning favor; 5. Erotic favoritism as a language of corruption in early modern drama; 6. 'What pleased the prince': Edward II and the imbalanced constitution; 7. Instrumental favoritism and the uses of Roman history; Afterword: 'In a true sense there is no Monarchy'; Notes; Index.