This new volume is a collection of essays and poems on George Garrett’s best-selling trilogy of Elizabethan England: Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun.

Contributors of the essays include Richard Betts, ‘To Dream of Kings’: George Garrett’s The Succession ; Nicholas Delbanco, The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James ; Joseph Dewey, ‘A Golden Age for Fanta-sticks’: Imagination, Faith, and Mistery in Entered from the Sun ; R. H. W. Dillard, The Elizabethan Novels: Death of the Fox and The Succession ; Thomas Fleming, The Historical Consciousness of George Garrett ; Reginald Gibbons, George Garrett’s Whole New World: The Succession ; Steven G. Kellman, Who Killed Kit Marlowe? Who Wants to Know? ; Irving Malin, Hermetic Fox-Hunting ; Joseph W. Reed, Settling Marlowe’s Hash ; W. R. Robinson, Imagining the Individual: George Garrett’s Death of the Fox ; David R. Slavitt, A Twentieth Century Fox–in the Warner Brothers’ Chicken Coop ; Monroe K. Spears, George Garrett and the Historical Novel and A Trilogy Complete, A Past Recaptured ; Walter Sullivan, Time Past and Time Present: Garrett’s Entered from the Sun ; Richard Tillinghast, The Fox, Gloriana, Kit Marlowe, and Sundry ; Tom Whalen, Eavesdropping in the Dark: The Opening(s) of George Garrett’s Entered from the Sun ; Allen Wier, The Scars of Flesh and Spirit or How He Pictures It: George Garrett’s Entered from the Sun Brendan Galvin ( Your Messenger of 1566 ) and Laurence Goldstein ( In Praise of Entered from the Sun ) contribute poems to the volume.

Fred Chappell notes in the introduction that the trilogy swarms me over: it is full to bursting with a history that seems to have more complexity than the actual life I am living and it has caused me to interpret in its terms events I witness firsthand and even participate in.