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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 63
Page
... point of committing suicide, attacks one of the greatest of Roman myths in specifically Catholic language when she declares that 19 your great saint Lucrece Died not for honour; Tarquin topped her well; And, mad she could not hold him ...
... point of committing suicide, attacks one of the greatest of Roman myths in specifically Catholic language when she declares that 19 your great saint Lucrece Died not for honour; Tarquin topped her well; And, mad she could not hold him ...
Page
... points, and this is reflected not only in the fact that many of the plays about the Caesars tackle contentious political issues head-on, but also in a sustained concern in Roman plays with ways of narrating and of staging events. In ...
... points, and this is reflected not only in the fact that many of the plays about the Caesars tackle contentious political issues head-on, but also in a sustained concern in Roman plays with ways of narrating and of staging events. In ...
Page
... point that being a poet could be a dangerous avocation in imperial Rome. Lucan and Seneca had been forced to commit suicide, and Ovid had been banished. On the English Renaissance stage, Cinna the poet is murdered onstage in ...
... point that being a poet could be a dangerous avocation in imperial Rome. Lucan and Seneca had been forced to commit suicide, and Ovid had been banished. On the English Renaissance stage, Cinna the poet is murdered onstage in ...
Page
... Titus Andronicus, gestures at a number of different historical periods: its Romans feel more like Italians, and Ros King points out that 'the names given by Belarius to Guiderius and Arviragus – Polydore and Cadwal respectively.
... Titus Andronicus, gestures at a number of different historical periods: its Romans feel more like Italians, and Ros King points out that 'the names given by Belarius to Guiderius and Arviragus – Polydore and Cadwal respectively.
Page
... point by referring back to the earlier period when the use of the correspondence between English kings and Caesars had first come into its own, since Lucius Junius Brutus retroactively rewrites Hamlet by building strongly on the echoes ...
... point by referring back to the earlier period when the use of the correspondence between English kings and Caesars had first come into its own, since Lucius Junius Brutus retroactively rewrites Hamlet by building strongly on the echoes ...
Contents
Hamlet among the Romans | |
Caesar and the Czar | |
Pocahontas and The Winters Tale | |
The Romans in Britain | |
Cymbeline | |
He Claudius | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage Professor Lisa Hopkins Limited preview - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
Aeneas Aeneid Agrippina allusion Andrew Hadfield Antony and Cleopatra argues Asia associated Augustus Basingstoke Bassianus Britain British Brutus Caesar and Pompey Caesar’s Revenge Caesarian Cambridge University Press Catholic Charles Christopher Marlowe Claudius contemporary cultural Cymbeline death declares Dido Early Modern England early modern English Early Modern Literary edition and reference Elizabeth Elizabethan English Renaissance Europe father figure further quotations Geoffrey of Monmouth Goths gypsies Hamlet Harmondsworth identity Innogen Ireland James James’s Jonson Julius Caesar King Locrine London Lucius Lucrece Manchester University Press Marcellus Mark Thornton Marlowe’s Modern Literary Studies myth notably Notes and Queries Online Ottoman Oxford Palgrave Penguin Philadelphvs play’s Pocahontas points political Prince Henry Princess Renaissance Drama Renaissance Literature Richard Roman plays Rome Rome’s says Scotland Scots Scottish Scythians seems Shakespeare Quarterly story suggests Tamburlaine Tarquin Tiberius Nero Titus Andronicus Tragedy translatio imperii Trojans Troy Turks violence Virgilian Virginia William Shakespeare Winter’s Tale