The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama : Icon of Opposition

ISBN-13: 9780415963176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 274 str.

Kristen Deiter

Opis

Historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c 1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others.

Recenzje

"This text offers a provocative and careful study that reassesses the role of the Tower of London by examining the architectural building as a theatrical showplace and an icon of terror in the early modern period. Deiter does a wonderful job of establishing that dramatic representations of the Tower expanded its iconographic meaning by focusing on the Tower as a site of instability, rather than of royal authority. She places her analysis within a larger historical context and a reading of a significant number of cultural artifacts, including diaries, portraits, tracts, poetry, ballads, and woodcuts…Readers interested in scholarship on cultural studies of architecture, artifacts, and the theater as a place for commentary on social and political dissent will find Deiter’s book of particular interest as it makes important contributions to each of these realms of inquiry." --Anne-Marie E. Schuler, Ohio State University, Sixteenth Century Journal

O autorze

Kristen Deiter is Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee Technological University, USA.