Daniel Cadman

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama

Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Daniel Cadman examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as 'closet drama', during the years 1590-1613. In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, the book addresses gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781472435200
• ISBN-10: 1472435206
• Artikelnr.: 44796122

Autorenporträt

Daniel Cadman is Associate Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 ' The hurtful works of pleasure here behold': Stoicism and Sovereignty in
Mary Sidney's Antonius
2 'Plurality of Caesars': Politics, Stoicism, and Exemplarity in the Roman
Plays of Thomas Kyd, Samuel Daniel, and Samuel Brandom
3 Giving Tyrants Fame: Fulke Greville's Mustapha and Alaham
4 William Alexander's Darius and The Alexandroean Tragedy, and Samual
Daniels Philotas
5 'The losse of that which fortune lends': William Alexander's Croesus and
Julius Caesar
6 'Insolent fictions of the tragic scene': Stoicism and Republicanism in
Ben Jonson's Sejamus and Catiline
7 'The news we heard did tell the tyrant's end': Elizabeth Cary's The
Tragedy of Mariam
Conclusion