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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... Kings and rulers in literature 5. Allusions in literature 6. Power (Social sciences) in literature 7. Politics and literature – Great Britain – History – 16th century 8. Politics and literature – Great Britain – History – 17th century 9 ...
... Kings and rulers in literature 5. Allusions in literature 6. Power (Social sciences) in literature 7. Politics and literature – Great Britain – History – 16th century 8. Politics and literature – Great Britain – History – 17th century 9 ...
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Lisa Hopkins. DOI: 10.4324/9781315615202 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 'King nor Keisar' The Whore of Babylon.
Lisa Hopkins. DOI: 10.4324/9781315615202 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 'King nor Keisar' The Whore of Babylon.
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Lisa Hopkins. Contents. Acknowledgements Introduction 'King nor Keisar' The Whore of Babylon 1 Reformation and Deformation: Titus Andronicus 2 Hamlet among the Romans Caesar and the Czar 3 Tamburlaine and Julius Caesar 4 Pocahontas and ...
Lisa Hopkins. Contents. Acknowledgements Introduction 'King nor Keisar' The Whore of Babylon 1 Reformation and Deformation: Titus Andronicus 2 Hamlet among the Romans Caesar and the Czar 3 Tamburlaine and Julius Caesar 4 Pocahontas and ...
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... 81, and an earlier version of part of chapter seven as 'We were the Trojans: British national identities in 1633', Renaissance Studies 16.1 (March 2002), 36–51. Introduction 'King nor Keisar' The cultural impact of Rome in Acknowledgements.
... 81, and an earlier version of part of chapter seven as 'We were the Trojans: British national identities in 1633', Renaissance Studies 16.1 (March 2002), 36–51. Introduction 'King nor Keisar' The cultural impact of Rome in Acknowledgements.
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... King of Aragon, for instance, the formulaic phrase 'King nor Keisar' recurs on a number of occasions, suggesting that the idea of being a Caesar is almost synonymous with rule.1 Ideas about, or derived from, Rome, were liable to surface ...
... King of Aragon, for instance, the formulaic phrase 'King nor Keisar' recurs on a number of occasions, suggesting that the idea of being a Caesar is almost synonymous with rule.1 Ideas about, or derived from, Rome, were liable to surface ...
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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