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Tyranny and usurpation : the new prince and lawmaking violence in early modern drama
- Title
- Tyranny and usurpation : the new prince and lawmaking violence in early modern drama / Doyeeta Majumder.
- Author
- Majumder, Doyeeta
- Publication
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press ; [Leicester] : The English Association, 2019.
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- Description
- vii, 225 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In the middle years of the 16th century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the 'tyrant by entrie' or the usurper, who supplanted earlier 'tyrant by the administration' as the main antihero of political drama. This usurper or, in Machiavellian terms principe nuove, was the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own 'virtue' and through an act of 'lawmaking' violence. Early Tudor morality plays were exclusively concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant; in the political drama of the first half of the 16th century, we do not encounter a single instance of usurpation among the texts that are still available to us. Devoted exclusively to the study of usurpation and tyranny in 16th-century drama and politics, this book will challenge existing disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with these critical questions.
- Series Statement
- English Association studies ; 5
- Uniform Title
- English Association studies ; 5.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4626
- ISBN
- 1786941686
- 9781786941688
- 9781786949622 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1055459796
- Author
- Majumder, Doyeeta, author.
- Title
- Tyranny and usurpation : the new prince and lawmaking violence in early modern drama / Doyeeta Majumder.
- Publisher
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press ; [Leicester] : The English Association, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- English Association studies ; 5English Association studies ; 5.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1600
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781786949622
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4626