The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660.(Reviews)(Book Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

Marco Bellabarba. The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660.

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii + 312 pp. index. illus. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-521-78289-9.

This is a very good book indeed, and a marvelous read. It is also a very ambitious one. Professor Bellabarba investigates that murky, squalid scandal, the Overbury affair, which has provided the bedrock of the belief in the squalor of the court of James I but has only recently been the subject of detailed analysis. His ...

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