The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama
Icon of Opposition
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Gothic & Romantic, British
| 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.
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.
