Chris Fitter

Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe (eBook, ePUB)

Western Anti-Monarchism, The Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Founded on an unprecedented and wide-ranging study of anti-monarchist thought, Majesty and the Masses presents a significant contribution to Shakespeare and Marlowe criticism, studies of Tudor England, and the history of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000190953
• Artikelnr.: 59847136

Autorenporträt

Chris Fitter was educated at Oxford, taking his doctorate from St. John's College. Professor of English at Rutgers University at Camden, his three previous books are Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory (Cambridge, 1994); Radical Shakespeare: Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career (Routledge, 2012); Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners: Digesting the New Social History (Oxford, 2017). He is author also of twenty journal essays and book chapters, and two dozen book reviews.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
PART ONE: THE DIVINE ROUT OF KINGS? WESTERN TRADITIONS IN NEGATION OF
MONARCHY
Chapter 1: Surveying the Inheritance of Indictment
1. Ancient Greece and Rome
2. Biblical Legacies
3. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
4. The Reformation
5. The Italian Renaissance, Humanist Values, Republican Thought
6. Humanism and Republican Thought in England
7. Tyranny and Resistance Theory
8. Plebeian Perspectives and the Commonweal Touchstone
9. Freedom of Speech
Chapter 2: Collapsing the Foundations of Tudor Sacral Kingship: Ernst
Kantorowicz, Erasmus, and Sir Thomas Elyot
Chapter 3: Countering Monarchic Propaganda: Shakespeare and royalism,
Marlowe's Massacre at Paris, and Shakespeare's Richard III
PART TWO: KINGSHIP AND THE ESSEX CHALLENGE
Chapter 4: Richard II as Elizabethans Received it: Dating, Dissidence, and
Essex 1596 vs. Essex 1601
Chapter 5: Richard II and the Politics of Stagecraft: Audience Relations
and the Negative Dialectic
Chapter 6: "Opposed Eyes": Popular Crisis, Class-Surveillance, and the Turn
against Kingship in I Henry IV
Chapter 7: King Henry, Hotspur, Essex: Negating the Negation, and the
Plebeian Commonweal Paradigm
Bibliography