Download or read book Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633 written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopkins argues the succession to the throne was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, and drama, with its disguised identities and oblique relationship to reality, was a safe way to air it. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which plays-from Marlowe's and Shakespeare's to Webster's and Ford's-reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession.