Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to DrydenThis is a major study of the relation between poetry and politics in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature, focusing in particular on the works of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Dryden. Taking issue with the traditional concept of the political poem and with recent New Historicist criticism, Erskine-Hill argues that the major tradition of political allusion is not, as has often been argued, that of the political allegory of Dryden's Absolom and Architophel and other overtly political poems, but rather a more shifting and less systematic practice, often involving equivocal or multiple reference. |
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... later verse emerge as a central response to the post - revolutionary era , rather than secularized accommodation or marginalized protest . Seen in historical context Shakespeare's Histories tend towards a distinct view of royal ...
... later verse emerge as a central response to the post - revolutionary era , rather than secularized accommodation or marginalized protest . Seen in historical context Shakespeare's Histories tend towards a distinct view of royal ...
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... later , on his way to prison , when Bolingbroke was not present ( v . i . 55–68 ) . He surely cannot forget that , in Richard II , IV . i . 104 , before Northumberland had rated and accused Richard , Bolingbroke had announced : ' In ...
... later , on his way to prison , when Bolingbroke was not present ( v . i . 55–68 ) . He surely cannot forget that , in Richard II , IV . i . 104 , before Northumberland had rated and accused Richard , Bolingbroke had announced : ' In ...
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... Later Juno , in an angry and ironical speech to Jupiter on the wrongs of the Italians , is made to declare : You think it hard , the Latians shou'd destroy With Swords your Trojans , and with Fires your Troy : Hard and unjust indeed ...
... Later Juno , in an angry and ironical speech to Jupiter on the wrongs of the Italians , is made to declare : You think it hard , the Latians shou'd destroy With Swords your Trojans , and with Fires your Troy : Hard and unjust indeed ...
Contents
List of Illustrations བ | 11 |
Introduction I | 11 |
The First Tetralogy and King John | 46 |
Copyright | |
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