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Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition

By: Professor Paola Pugliatti

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Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition

By: Professor Paola Pugliatti

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.

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1409475891

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The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage

By: Professor Lisa Hopkins

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The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage

By: Professor Lisa Hopkins

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. In this study Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars, and of the Julio-Claudians in particular, can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare and a number of other playwrights of the period, she demonstrates how early modern English dramatists, using Roman modes of literary representation as cover, commented on the issues of the day and critiqued contemporary monarchs.

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180

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1409489965

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9781409489962

Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

By: Professor Peter Hyland

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Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

By: Professor Peter Hyland

Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.

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1409478777

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9781409478775

Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633

By: Professor Lisa Hopkins

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Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633

By: Professor Lisa Hopkins

The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time – by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others – reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.

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Book's by Professor Paola Pugliatti

Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition

Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition

The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage

The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage

Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633

Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633

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