Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-1660

List of illustrations Preface 1. 'Secrecy's now published': royalists and the press, 1641-60 2. 'Our cabbalistical adversaries': secret language 3. Genre as code: romance and tragicomedy 4. Intertextuality and identity: Literary codes 5. The royal image: Charles I as text Conclusion Notes References Index.