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The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) - Hardcover

Book 18 of 56: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Hopkins, Lisa

 
9780754662631: The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)

Synopsis

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. In this study Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars, and of the Julio-Claudians in particular, can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare and a number of other playwrights of the period, she demonstrates how early modern English dramatists, using Roman modes of literary representation as cover, commented on the issues of the day and critiqued contemporary monarchs.

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About the Author

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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