Mark Kaethler is an instructor at Medicine Hat College and serves as Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London project at the University of Victoria.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Thomas Middleton's Plural Politics1. "He that knows how to obey, knows how to reign": James as The Phoenix2. "And in all times, may this day ever prove / A day of triumph, joy, and honest love"? The Witch and the Overbury Trials3. "Two ways at once": The World Tossed at Tennis and the Thirty Years War4. "If this be virtue's path, 'tis a strange one": A Game at Chess's Competing HistoriesConclusion: "Use but your royal hand"Works CitedIndex

Mark Kaethler is an instructor at Medicine Hat College and serves as Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London project at the University of Victoria.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Thomas Middleton's Plural Politics1. "He that knows how to obey, knows how to reign": James as The Phoenix2. "And in all times, may this day ever prove / A day of triumph, joy, and honest love"? The Witch and the Overbury Trials3. "Two ways at once": The World Tossed at Tennis and the Thirty Years War4. "If this be virtue's path, 'tis a strange one": A Game at Chess's Competing HistoriesConclusion: "Use but your royal hand"Works CitedIndex