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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... associated with the Caesars: Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia compares Mary Sidney to Octavia, daughter of the Emperor Claudius, 7 and a portrait said to be of Elizabeth Throckmorton, Lady Ralegh, though the attribution is very doubtful ...
... associated with the Caesars: Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia compares Mary Sidney to Octavia, daughter of the Emperor Claudius, 7 and a portrait said to be of Elizabeth Throckmorton, Lady Ralegh, though the attribution is very doubtful ...
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... associated with Catholicism in The Second Maiden's Tragedy (anonymous, but probably by Thomas Middleton), while in Jasper Fisher's Fuimus Troes, where part of the point is that all the characters are Roman to some degree, Lantonus ...
... associated with Catholicism in The Second Maiden's Tragedy (anonymous, but probably by Thomas Middleton), while in Jasper Fisher's Fuimus Troes, where part of the point is that all the characters are Roman to some degree, Lantonus ...
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... associated. In Titus Andronicus, Romans and Goths thus come to represent not only military opponents in classical terms but religious ones in Christian terms, but the polarities in both cases are shifting and unstable. Moreover, the ...
... associated. In Titus Andronicus, Romans and Goths thus come to represent not only military opponents in classical terms but religious ones in Christian terms, but the polarities in both cases are shifting and unstable. Moreover, the ...
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... associated with them, Roman modes of literary representation remained prestigious, influential, and much reflected on. Literature, and particularly verse, was believed to have had special properties in ancient Rome. Quite apart from the ...
... associated with them, Roman modes of literary representation remained prestigious, influential, and much reflected on. Literature, and particularly verse, was believed to have had special properties in ancient Rome. Quite apart from the ...
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... associated with the concept of Caesarism that he was often referred to simply as 'Caesar'. He paradoxically expressed both the height of Roman achievement and the depths of its vulnerability to female temptation, 30 in the shape of ...
... associated with the concept of Caesarism that he was often referred to simply as 'Caesar'. He paradoxically expressed both the height of Roman achievement and the depths of its vulnerability to female temptation, 30 in the shape of ...
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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