The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage
by
Lisa Hopkins
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
ISBN-10
0754662632
ISBN-13
9780754662631
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 28th, 2008
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Product Classification:
Theatre studiesLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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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. This title demonstrates how early modern English dramatists, using Roman modes of literary representation as cover, commented on the issues of the day.
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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