Introduction
PART ONE Panegyrical Elegy
1 . Joyful Sorrow : Elegies for Elizabeth I /
2 . Had He Lived Longer : Elegies for Prince Henry /
3 . The King of Peace : Elegies for James I /
PART TWO Satirical Elegy
4 . "Here lies a Toad" : Elegies on Robert Cecil /
5 . A Prelude to the Civil War : /
Elegies on the Duke of Buckingham and His Assassin John Felton /
PART THREE Elegy as Propaganda
6 . Elegy and the Civil War /
7 . Royal Martyr : Charles I and the Execution Elegy /
8 . The Appropriated Genre : Elegies during the Interregnum /
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index