Description
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama
Icon of Opposition
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series
Author: Deiter Kristen
Language: English
Keywords
Tower’s Role; towers; Richard III; role; Tower Hill; richardus; White Tower; tertius; Edward III; white; Richardus Tertius; hill; Tower’s Representation; perkin; Actual Tower; warbeck; Henry III; meanings; Tower Walls; royal; Royal Ideology; Tower’s Meaning; Tower Prisoners; Tower Tours; Bloody Tower; Tower Complex; Young Man; Renaissance Playgoers; Royal Strength; Tower Liberty; English Renaissance Culture; Coronation Procession; Late Elizabethan Age; Tudor Myth; Royal Weakness
Publication date: 06-2014
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 05-2008
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
Description
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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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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
Kristen Deiter is Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee Technological University, USA.
