The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

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Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Gothic & Romantic, British
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Author: Kristen Deiter ISBN: 9781135894054
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: February 23, 2011
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Kristen Deiter
ISBN: 9781135894054
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: February 23, 2011
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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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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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