Paul Budra. A Mirror for Magistrates and the de casibus
Tradition. Toronto, Buffalo, London: U of Toronto P, 2000.
xiv+119pp. ISBN 0 8020 4717 3.  Dermot Cavanagh University of
Northumbria  Cavanagh, Dermot. "Review of Paul Budra, A Mirror
for Magistrates and the de casibus Tradition." Early Modern
Literary Studies 7.2 (September, 2001): 7.1-7 <URL:    1. A
Mirror for Magistrates was one of the enduring successes of
Tudor (and Stuart) literature. It continued to instruct and
entertain, with new contents and casts, from its first
appearance in 1559 until 1610, receiving the attentions of four
editors and outliving many of its original contributors.
Influential and widely imitated, it expanded to accommodate the
great, good and unspeakable of English (and British history) -
from Brute to Elizabeth in just under a hundred poems--and even
managed to please the notoriously choosy Sir Philip Sidney who
commended its "bewtiful partes."    2. Yet, the Mirror nearly
failed to appear at all; the original edition was qu