Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama (e-bog) af Deiter, Kristen
Deiter, Kristen (forfatter)

Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama e-bog

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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many play...
E-bog 473,39 DKK
Forfattere Deiter, Kristen (forfatter)
Forlag Routledge
Udgivet 23 februar 2011
Længde 14 sider
Genrer 2AB
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781135894054
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.