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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... story of the fall of Rome to the Goths operates in profoundly symbolic ways which both itemise and interrogate what Rome had come to mean to Renaissance England. The play never loses sight of the irony that while Rome was now at the ...
... story of the fall of Rome to the Goths operates in profoundly symbolic ways which both itemise and interrogate what Rome had come to mean to Renaissance England. The play never loses sight of the irony that while Rome was now at the ...
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... story, while the march of the Goths on Rome takes us to yet a third historical period, and the name of Bassianus, as we shall see, alludes to the Roman occupation of Britain, and also activates audience memory of a debate about the ...
... story, while the march of the Goths on Rome takes us to yet a third historical period, and the name of Bassianus, as we shall see, alludes to the Roman occupation of Britain, and also activates audience memory of a debate about the ...
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... story in relation to Stoicism, see Geoffrey Miles, Shakespeare and the Constant Romans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). It is said that in his boyhood and early youth he also wrote pieces called In Praise of Hercules and The Tragedy of ...
... story in relation to Stoicism, see Geoffrey Miles, Shakespeare and the Constant Romans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). It is said that in his boyhood and early youth he also wrote pieces called In Praise of Hercules and The Tragedy of ...
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... story of the Algonquian princess Pocahontas. As many scholars have observed, the classical past and the New World were rarely far apart in early modern thought. The chapter argues that there is not merely an incidental but a structural ...
... story of the Algonquian princess Pocahontas. As many scholars have observed, the classical past and the New World were rarely far apart in early modern thought. The chapter argues that there is not merely an incidental but a structural ...
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... story' looks at the ways in which the figure of the Emperor Claudius could be mapped onto that of Charles I and the kinds of political capital that could be made from this. 36 Ros King, Cymbeline: Constructions of Britain (Aldershot ...
... story' looks at the ways in which the figure of the Emperor Claudius could be mapped onto that of Charles I and the kinds of political capital that could be made from this. 36 Ros King, Cymbeline: Constructions of Britain (Aldershot ...
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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