Leadership and Elizabethan Culture [Paperback]

Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama.1. Queen Elizabeth I of England: Monarchical Leadership in Action Susan Doran 2. Of Poetry and Politics: The Managerial Culture of Sixteenth-Century England Norman L. Jones 3. Alla Prudentissima Et Virtuosissima Reina Elisabetta: An Englishman's Italian Dedication to the Queen Charlotte Boland 4.  Mary Queen of Scots and the Northern Rebellion of 1569 K.J. Kesselring 5. Queen Elizabeth's Leadership Abroad: The Netherlands in the 1570s Peter Iver Kaufman 6. Leadership in the 1590s Janet Dickinson 7. Imagination and Leadership in Elizabethan England Todd Butler 8. Henry Herbert, Second Earl of Pembroke and Noble Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces Neil Younger 9. Swingebreeches and Scholers: Images of Pastoral Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces Timothy Scott McGinnis 10. Commerce and Community: Emergent Forms of Economic Leadership in Elizabeth's England Ritchie D. Kendall 11. The Perils of Political Showmanship: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Meg Pearson 12. Subject, Servant, and Sovereign: Servant Leadership in Elizabethan Government and Shakespeare's King John Kristin M.S. Bezio 13 'If Power Change Purpose': Defining Leadership in Measure for Measure Karen Bruhn

A novel collection that deftly balances contemporary expectations of monarchy, key questions about Elizabeth's queenship, and wider issues about the skills and qualities of a good leader without ever falling into anachronism. These essays offer new assessments of the nature of Elizabeth's governance and will stimulate further the already lively debates on one of British history's most iconic figures and the nature of leadership. An ideal collection for the Elizabethan specialist, the student, the political sclÓ[