Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Social Control, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, English Drama - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Political Protest & Dissent, So
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Overview
The Movement Towards Subversion explores the theme of power in the Renaissance English history play. It analyzes the growing subversion of the sociopolitical hierarchy in Renaissance drama from Skelton's "Magnificence" to Shakespeare's "King Lear". Unlike most scholarship, this book studies the lesser-known, often neglected dramas plus some familiar "canonical" works. These plays tell us a lot about political and religious attitudes in sixteenth-century England. Instead of discussing the plays in regard to their relationships with and influences upon Shakespearean drama, the author analyzes the plays on their own terms. This book also shows how dramatists employ medieval history in their plays to express subversive ideas about Tudor political situations.Author Biography: Eric Sterling is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama.
Editorials
Studies In English Literature
Sterling reads the plays intelligently and his research into their historical context is effective in bringing out important topical resonances...Sterling is undoubtedly right.— John T. Shawcross, University of Kentucky
Studies In English Literature
"Sterling reads the plays intelligently and his research into their historical context is effective in bringing out important topical resonances...Sterling is undoubtedly right."— John T. Shawcross
John T. Shawcross
Sterling reads the plays intelligently and his research into their historical context is effective in bringing out important topical resonances...Sterling is undoubtedly right.Book Details
Published
August 15, 1996
Publisher
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1996.
Pages
250
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780761804482