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Verse narratives like William Baldwin’s Mirror for Magistrates (1559), chronicle histories like Edward Hall’s The Union of the Two Noble Families of Lancaster and York (1548) and Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicle of England, Scotland and Ireland (1587), and succession tracts like those of Peter Wentworth (1587, 1594), Robert Parsons (1594), and Sir John Harington (1602) have different agendas and reach varied literate and elite audiences. But all these texts unsettle monarchy. Baldwin, penning fictional monologues of the fall of sovereigns, ventriloquizes their flaws. Chronicle histories, dedicated to the monarch, may celebrate Tudor order, but invariably reveal threats to it. Each succession tract, to support a favored candidate, must de-legitimate other contenders, calling legitimacy itself into question. Plays on English history have often been interpreted as promoting national order sustained by the divinely appointed monarch. However, close analysis of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (1589-1592) and Thomas Dekker and John Webster’s The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) demonstrates how, by representing history onstage, these plays graphically stage crises of legitimacy. By representing the weakness of kings, the power of queens, the inadequacy of heirs, factional rivalry, aristocrat and plebian rebellion, usurpation and counter-usurpation, they interrogate hereditary monarchy to reveal that it cannot work. The public stage, I show, functions as a site for widespread ideological dissemination far beyond that of printed books and includes the diverse and dissident voices of women, plebeians, foreigners, and rebels.","abstract_html":"Competing to Succeed examines how fifteenth and early sixteenth century British non-dramatic texts and history plays use medieval and early modern English history to interrogate the Elizabethan succession crisis. 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