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100 1 _aFitter, Christopher,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMajesty and the masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe :
_bWestern anti-monarchism, the Earl of Essex challenge, and political stagecraft /
_cChris Fitter.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bRoutledge,
_c[2021].
300 _a1 online resource (1 volume)
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aRoutledge studies in Shakespeare
520 _aThis book is a landmark study of Shakespeare's politics as revealed in his later History Plays. It offers the first ever survey of anti-monarchism in Western literature, history and philosophy, tracked from Hesiod and Homer through to contemporaries of Shakespeare such as George Buchanan and the authors of the Mirror for Magistrates, thus demonstrating that anxiety over monarchic power, and contemptuous demolitions of kingship as a disastrously irrational institution, formed an important and irremovable body of reflection in prestigious Western writing. Overturning the widespread assumption that "Elizabethans believed in divine right monarchy", it exposits the anti-monarchic critique built into Shakespeare's Histories and Marlowe's Massacre at Paris, in five chapters of close literary critical readings, paying innovative attention to performance values. Part Two focuses Queen Elizabeth's principal challenger for national rule: the Earl of Essex, England's most popular man. It demonstrates from detailed readings that, far from being an admirer of the war-crazed, unstable, bi-polar Essex, as is regularly asserted, Shakespeare launched in Richard II and Henry IV a campaign to puncture the reputation of the great earl, exposing him as a Machiavel seeking Elizabeth's throne. Shakespeare emerges as a humane and clear-sighted critic of the follies intrinsic to dynastic monarchy: yet hostile, likewise, to the rash militarist, Essex, who would fling England into permanent war against Spain. Founded on an unprecedented and wide-ranging study of anti-monarchist thought, this book presents a significant contribution to Shakespeare and Marlowe criticism, studies of Tudor England, and the history of ideas.
588 _aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
600 1 0 _aShakespeare, William,
_d1564-1616
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aMarlowe, Christopher,
_d1564-1593
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 0 _aEssex, Walter Devereux,
_cEarl of,
_d1539-1576
_xIn literature.
650 0 _aMonarchy in literature.
650 0 _aPolitics in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General
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856 4 0 _3Taylor & Francis
_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003038641
856 4 2 _3OCLC metadata license agreement
_uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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