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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... drama that not only take into account the production values of the plays, but also speculate on how intellectual advances or popular culture affect the theatre. The series logo, selected by my colleague Mary V. Silcox, derives from ...
... drama that not only take into account the production values of the plays, but also speculate on how intellectual advances or popular culture affect the theatre. The series logo, selected by my colleague Mary V. Silcox, derives from ...
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... Renaissance stage. – (Studies in performance and early modern drama) 1. English drama – Roman influences 2. English drama – Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1600 – History and criticism 3. English drama – 17th century – History and ...
... Renaissance stage. – (Studies in performance and early modern drama) 1. English drama – Roman influences 2. English drama – Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1600 – History and criticism 3. English drama – 17th century – History and ...
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... Renaissance drama, including two of the less popular Shakespeare plays (Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline) alongside two of the best-known, Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra, and touching too on several non-Shakespearean plays that have been ...
... Renaissance drama, including two of the less popular Shakespeare plays (Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline) alongside two of the best-known, Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra, and touching too on several non-Shakespearean plays that have been ...
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... plays (including Julius Caesar) to stage a contest between modes of representation – violent and non-violent, classical and modern, and visual and aural – which activates an analogous debate about whether drama should have a political ...
... plays (including Julius Caesar) to stage a contest between modes of representation – violent and non-violent, classical and modern, and visual and aural – which activates an analogous debate about whether drama should have a political ...
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... plays about the Caesars as part of a wider project of using the stage to ... drama as a whole but lays bare a crucial aspect of its workings. The second ... Renaissance educational practices, 33 he was reported by Suetonius to have ...
... plays about the Caesars as part of a wider project of using the stage to ... drama as a whole but lays bare a crucial aspect of its workings. The second ... Renaissance educational practices, 33 he was reported by Suetonius to have ...
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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