The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama
Icon of Opposition
Price: $95.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-96317-6
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12th March 2008
- Pages: 274
About the Book
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.
Table of Contents
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
About the Author(s)
Kristen Deiter is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Carroll University.