Andrew McRae is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Exeter. He is the author of God Speed the Plough: the Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (Cambridge, 1996) and Renaissance Drama (2003), and co-editor of The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 (2003).

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Acknowledgements
Conventions
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Personal Politics: 1. The culture of early Stuart libelling
2. Contesting identities: libels and the early Stuart politician
Part II. Public Politics: 3. Freeing the tongue and the heart: satire and the political subject
4. Discourses of discrimination: political satire in the 1620s
Part III. The Politics of Division: 5. Satire and sycophancy: Richard Corbett and early Stuart Royalism
6. Stigmatising Prynne: Puritanism and politics in the 1630s
Epilogue: early Stuart satire and the Civil War
Bibliography
Index.

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