The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

Icon of Opposition
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-96317-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deiter, Kristen (Marywood University, USA)

Deiter, Kristen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Images

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction: Historicizing Original Tower Play Audiences

Chapter Two: The Tower of London as a Cultural Icon before the Tower Plays

Chapter Three: Stage vs. State: The Struggle for the Tower

Chapter Four: The Tower of London: Dramatic Emblem of Opposition

Chapter Five: Reading English Nationhood in the Dramatic Tower of London

Coda: The Tower of London: An Evolving Icon

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kristen Deiter is Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee Technological University, USA.