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Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

Icon of Opposition

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvKristen Deiter

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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 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-06-09
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt362 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Antal sidor14
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415762540

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List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Introduction: Historicizing Original Tower Play AudiencesChapter Two: The Tower of London as a Cultural Icon before the Tower PlaysChapter Three: Stage vs. State: The Struggle for the TowerChapter Four: The Tower of London: Dramatic Emblem of OppositionChapter Five: Reading English Nationhood in the Dramatic Tower of LondonCoda: The Tower of London: An Evolving IconNotesBibliographyIndex

"This text offers a provocative and careful study that reassesses the role of the Tower of London by examining the architectural building as a theatrical showplace and an icon of terror in the early modern period. Deiter does a wonderful job of establishing that dramatic representations of the Tower expanded its iconographic meaning by focusing on the Tower as a site of instability, rather than of royal authority. She places her analysis within a larger historical context and a reading of a significant number of cultural artifacts, including diaries, portraits, tracts, poetry, ballads, and woodcuts…Readers interested in scholarship on cultural studies of architecture, artifacts, and the theater as a place for commentary on social and political dissent will find Deiter’s book of particular interest as it makes important contributions to each of these realms of inquiry." --Anne-Marie E. Schuler, Ohio State University, Sixteenth Century Journal