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Power in Smoke: The Language of Tobacco and Authority in Caroline England

Power in Smoke: The Language of Tobacco and Authority in Caroline England Power in Smoke:   The Language of Tobacco and  Authority in Caroline England by Todd Butler RITING  in  his  A Chronicle of the Kings of England  (1643),  Sir  Richard Baker  recalls th   e  year  1596,  which  saw  the  death  of  W“Richard  fletcher, Bishop  of  London;  who  for  marrying  the  Lady  Baker  (as  goodly  a  Lady  as  he  was  a  Prelate) incurred   th   e  Queens  displeasure;  and  to  cure  his  cares, fellimmo   derately  to  drinking  of  To- bacco,  and  so  expired.”  The  anecdote  in  some  ways  typifies  Baker’s  work,  which  occasionally detours    intovivid     gossip  before  returningto     the  higher  matter of  kings  and  parliaments.Y   et  Baker’s  rendering   of  this incidentma   y  be  more  thana     simple  illustratioof n    the  difficulties  of  Elizabethancourt   iership,for     in  it  Baker  seems  to  take  particular c  areto     emphasize  the  connectionof     tobaccoto     political disob   edience.  Matters  of  personal desire—love  and  excess—are  confrontedin     a  moment  of  royaldis   pleasure,  resultingin     the  rapid  degenerationof     both  the  indi- vidual man and the bishop.   Baker’s  anecdote might  remain  solely a  matter of  entertainment or     historical curiosit   yif     not for  its  appearance in  1643,  one  year  afterKin   g  Charles I  had  http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in Philology University of North Carolina Press

Power in Smoke: The Language of Tobacco and Authority in Caroline England

Butler, Todd Wayne.
Studies in Philology , Volume 106 (1) – Jan 11, 2009
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Power in Smoke:   The Language of Tobacco and  Authority in Caroline England by Todd Butler RITING  in  his  A Chronicle of the Kings of England  (1643),  Sir  Richard Baker  recalls th   e  year  1596,  which  saw  the  death  of  W“Richard  fletcher, Bishop  of  London;  who  for  marrying  the  Lady  Baker  (as  goodly  a  Lady  as  he  was  a  Prelate) incurred   th   e  Queens  displeasure;  and  to  cure  his  cares, fellimmo   derately  to  drinking  of  To- bacco,  and  so  expired.”  The  anecdote  in  some  ways  typifies  Baker’s  work,  which  occasionally detours    intovivid     gossip  before  returningto     the  higher  matter of  kings  and  parliaments.Y   et  Baker’s  rendering   of  this incidentma   y  be  more  thana     simple  illustratioof n    the  difficulties  of  Elizabethancourt   iership,for     in  it  Baker  seems  to  take  particular c  areto     emphasize  the  connectionof     tobaccoto     political disob   edience.  Matters  of  personal desire—love  and  excess—are  confrontedin     a  moment  of  royaldis   pleasure,  resultingin     the  rapid  degenerationof     both  the  indi- vidual man and the bishop.   Baker’s  anecdote might  remain  solely a  matter of  entertainment or     historical curiosit   yif     not for  its  appearance in  1643,  one  year  afterKin   g  Charles I  had 

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