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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from Republic to Restoration; 1660: restoration and revolution; Monarchy and commonwealth: 'republican' defences of monarchy at the Restoration; Couplets, commonplaces and the creation of history in The Famous Tragedie of King Charles I (1649) and Cromwell's ... ; 'Plots' and dissent: the abortive Northern Rebellion of 1663; Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women's political writing, 1640-80.
  • The battle of the books: the Authorized Version and the Book of Common Prayer at the RestorationActs of oblivion: reframing drama, 1649-65; 'Far off the public stage': Marvell's public and private writings, 1649-65; Projecting the Experiment: science and the Restoration; The view from the devil's mountain: Clarendon, Cressy and Hobbes, and the past, present and future of the Church of England; 'The Sport of Bishop-Hunting': Marvell and the neo-Laudians; Choosing a captain back for Egypt: Milton and the Restoration; The French connection: luxury, portraiture and the court of Charles II.
  • Restoration opera and the failure of patronage'The Name of King will light upon a Tarquin': republicanism, exclusion, and the name of king in Nathaniel Lee's Lucius ... ; 'A Child of Heathen Hobbs': political prints of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis
  • the revision of a republican mode; Bibliography; Index.