Sovereign Amity

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: "Soveraigne Amitie"
PART ONE: THE SOVEREIGN SUBJECT
1. The Early Modern Politics of Likeness:
Sovereign Reader-Subjects and Listening Kings
2. Chaste Associations in Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam:
Sexual Mixtures, Same-Sex Friendship, and the Genders of Integrity
3. Professing Friendship:
Erotic Prerogatives and "Human Title" in The Two Noble Kinsmen
PART TWO: THE SUBJECTED SOVEREIGN
4. Ungoverned States:
Friendship, Mignonnerie, and the Private Monarch
5. The False Prince and the True Subject:
Friendship and Public Institutions in Edward II and The Henriad
6. Friendship’s Offices:
True Speech and Artificial Bodies in The Winter’s Tale
Epilogue: Magna Civitas, Magna Solitudo:
Bureaucratic Forms and Civic Conditions
Bibliography
Index