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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... original wounding of the kingdom in the killing of Richard , a wound which many sought to conceal , has now been opened up to God in prayer by the new King , and can be replaced by wounds that in future men will be proud to expose ...
... original wounding of the kingdom in the killing of Richard , a wound which many sought to conceal , has now been opened up to God in prayer by the new King , and can be replaced by wounds that in future men will be proud to expose ...
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... original to sustain comparison with Milton's original Chris- tian epic , Paradise Lost , which was sufficiently aware of the Aeneid to make comparison with Dryden's Aeneis a matter of interest . Again , each poet produces drama focusing ...
... original to sustain comparison with Milton's original Chris- tian epic , Paradise Lost , which was sufficiently aware of the Aeneid to make comparison with Dryden's Aeneis a matter of interest . Again , each poet produces drama focusing ...
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... original ' paternal rule ' to arrogate dominion ( xii . 24-32 ) , raises a further argument about kingship , a further hypothesized 52 Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha was composed between 1635 and 1642 , and first published in 1680 ...
... original ' paternal rule ' to arrogate dominion ( xii . 24-32 ) , raises a further argument about kingship , a further hypothesized 52 Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha was composed between 1635 and 1642 , and first published in 1680 ...
Contents
List of Illustrations བ | 11 |
Introduction I | 11 |
The First Tetralogy and King John | 46 |
Copyright | |
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