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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) - Hardcover

Book 57 of 155: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Deiter, Kristen

 
9780415963176: The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415963176 ISBN 13: 9780415963176
Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415963176
ISBN 13 
9780415963176
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
274