The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama : Icon of Opposition, Paperback / softback Book

The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama : Icon of Opposition Paperback / softback

Part of the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series

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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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