| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 Thomas Legge; William Shakespeare; Shakespeare and John Fletcher; George Peele; Christopher Marlowe; Anthony Munday et. al ; Munday, Michael Drayton, Robert Wilson, and Richard Hathway; Thomas Heywood; Thomas Dekker and John Webster; Samuel Rowley; Thomas Drue; Robert Davenport; John Ford; and unknown authors. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of roy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tower of London (London, England) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Tower of London (London, England) fast |
| Subject |
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Symbolism in literature.
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English drama
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Literature
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Symbolism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203895665 |
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0203895665 |
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1281229393 |
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9781281229397 |
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