Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama: Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority

ISBN-13: 9780367880200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Daniel Cadman

Opis

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 writer

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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