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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... (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), V.ii.2. The book is divided into three sections, which address the three central cultural uses of Rome on the English Renaissance stage. By the time of the Renaissance, the monolithic power that had been ...
... (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), V.ii.2. The book is divided into three sections, which address the three central cultural uses of Rome on the English Renaissance stage. By the time of the Renaissance, the monolithic power that had been ...
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... (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967), II.i.224–7. All subsequent quotations will be taken from this edition and reference will be given in the text. And Cassius says, How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states ...
... (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967), II.i.224–7. All subsequent quotations will be taken from this edition and reference will be given in the text. And Cassius says, How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states ...
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... (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957), p. 35. Julius Caesar had shaped both the spatial and temporal dimensions of the Renaissance world, laying down the Julian Calendar, to which England still adhered even after the introduction of the ...
... (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957), p. 35. Julius Caesar had shaped both the spatial and temporal dimensions of the Renaissance world, laying down the Julian Calendar, to which England still adhered even after the introduction of the ...
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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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