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16 de oct. de 2018 · An arranged marriage, a scandalous trial, political scheming, and a poison tart—no, they aren’t the convoluted plot points of a long-lost Shakespeare play, but the ingredients to a scandal that rocked the Jacobean court.
Beginnings of scandal. The Howards won James's support for an annulment of Frances's marriage to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, on grounds of impotence, to free her to remarry. With James's assistance, the marriage was duly annulled on 25 September 1613, despite Essex's opposition to the charge of impotence.
The Swetnam controversy texts exploit the gendered discourses surrounding contemporary court scandal to offer thinly veiled criticism of the monarch, building on a tradition of real and imagined women speaking truth to power.
Genuinely disturbed by the evidence, James authorized a thorough investigation into the circumstances of Overbury’s death. Within weeks, the Overbury murder case had triggered the most sensational court scandal of the age.
22 de ene. de 2019 · The archival materials I investigated during this trip centered on a scandal known as the Overbury Affair, a bizarre murder conspiracy that unfolded between 1613 and 1616 and which implicated one of the most powerful royal couples in King James I’s court.
1 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Thomas Overbury was an English poet and essayist, victim of an infamous intrigue at the court of James I. His poem A Wife, thought by some to have played a role in precipitating his murder, became widely popular after his death, and the brief portraits added to later editions established his
Sir Thomas Overbury, an English poet, courtier and essayist, died a prisoner in the Tower of London in September 1613. The circumstances surrounding his death caused a sensation and the resulting scandal rocked the monarchy to its core, irreparably tarnishing the reputation of James’s court.
