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Contents Acknowledgments ÊÊ9 Introduction Ê13 Part I: Sexual Gifts 1. Nonreciprocation and Female Rule: The Elizabethan Context Ê47 2. "[A] mutual render, only me for thee": "True" Gifts in Shakespeare's Sonnets Ê83 Part II: Political Gifts 3. Competitive Gifts and Strategic Exchange at the Jacobean Court 125 4. Gifts for the Somerset Wedding 159 5. "Fortune's darling, king's content": The Duke of Buckingham as Gift Problem 188 Epilogue 230 Notes 235 Bibliography 279 Index 299
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Gifts in literature.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century.
Gifts -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Gifts -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Gifts -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Courts and courtiers in literature.