 | Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; English drama -- 17th century -- H; No detailed description available for "Tragedies of Tyrants". Rebecca Bushnell is Professor of English and Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice and Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays , both from Cornell, and editor of A Companion to Tragedy . Rebecca W. Bushnell here explores the image of the tyrant in English Renaissance drama in light of the traditional opposition between the "proper king and unstable, effeminate, and histrionic tyrant found so often in Western political treatises and tracts. Bushnell traces the early modern image and language of tyranny through a wide range of texts, including morality plays, Humanist statecraft literature, and resistance tracts, as well as canonical tragedies. |
