The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance StageCaesarian 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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Lisa Hopkins. The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage Lisa Hopkins Sheffield Hallam University, UK First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge.
Lisa Hopkins. The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage Lisa Hopkins Sheffield Hallam University, UK First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge.
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Lisa Hopkins. First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an ...
Lisa Hopkins. First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an ...
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... Ashgate offered some extremely acute advice and guidance. Thanks also to Erika Gaffney for her patience and support. An earlier version of chapter four appeared in Shakespeare 1.2 (December 2005): 121–35, an earlier version of chapter ...
... Ashgate offered some extremely acute advice and guidance. Thanks also to Erika Gaffney for her patience and support. An earlier version of chapter four appeared in Shakespeare 1.2 (December 2005): 121–35, an earlier version of chapter ...
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... Ashgate, forthcoming). This association between Romans and Roman Catholics gained added force in the reign of Charles I, whose wife Henrietta Maria was a Catholic. I further argue that this association is often considered in tandem with ...
... Ashgate, forthcoming). This association between Romans and Roman Catholics gained added force in the reign of Charles I, whose wife Henrietta Maria was a Catholic. I further argue that this association is often considered in tandem with ...
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... Ashgate, 2005), pp. 73–4. The use of the Caesars to discuss contemporary issues was not confined to the early seventeenth century. It continued well after the Restoration: for instance, Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus, dedicated to ...
... Ashgate, 2005), pp. 73–4. The use of the Caesars to discuss contemporary issues was not confined to the early seventeenth century. It continued well after the Restoration: for instance, Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus, dedicated to ...
Contents
Hamlet among the Romans | |
Caesar and the Czar | |
Pocahontas and The Winters Tale | |
The Romans in Britain | |
Cymbeline | |
He Claudius | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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