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Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage


Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage


Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

von: Professor Lisa Hopkins

159,60 €

Verlag: Ashgate Publishing
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 01.03.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9780754682196
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 168

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Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. In this study Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars, and of the Julio-Claudians in particular, can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare and a number of other playwrights of the period, she demonstrates how early modern English dramatists, using Roman modes of literary representation as cover, commented on the issues of the day and critiqued contemporary monarchs.

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