The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

Author: Kristen Deiter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-23

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1135894051

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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama 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. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.

When the Waves Ruled Britannia
When the Waves Ruled Britannia

Author: Jonathan Scott

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-24

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1139499939

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How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English – and then British – political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing. One argument advanced in the process concerns the maritime origins, nature and consequences of the English revolution. This is the first general study to examine changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. Offering a new perspective on the nature of early modern Britain, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the period.

In Defiance of Time
In Defiance of Time

Author: Angus Vine

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-06-17

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0199566194

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In Defiance of Time contends that the antiquarian project, integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture, depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden.