Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama
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Act III
Apparent Participants
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Basilikon Doron
Cary's Play
Cary's Text
Cary’s Play
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Closet Drama
Corrupt Reason
courtier agency
Daniel's Play
Daniel’s Play
Degory Wheare
early modern drama political relationships
early modern political thought
English Renaissance theatre
English Renaissance Tragedy
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Fulke Greville's Mustapha
Fulke Greville’s Mustapha
Greville's Play
Greville’s Play
HAE
Hampton Court Conference
Henri III
humanist philosophy
IAC
Intertextual Affinities
Jonson's Play
Jonson’s Play
marginalised aristocracy
Mary Sidney
Mary Sidney's Translation
Mary Sidney’s Translation
Monarchicke Tragedies
Neo-Senecan Drama
Philip III
Sidney's Play
Sidney’s Play
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367880200
- Weight: 371g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ’closet drama’, during the years 1590-1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd - as a coherent group. Daniel Cadman suggests these works interrogate the relations between sovereigns and subjects during the early modern period by engaging with the humanist discourses of republicanism and stoicism. Cadman argues that the texts under study probe various aspects of this dynamic and illuminate the ways in which stoicism and republicanism provide essential frameworks for negotiating this relationship between the marginalized courtier and the absolute sovereign. He demonstrates how aristocrats and courtiers, such as Sidney, Greville, Alexander, and Cary, were able to use the neo-Senecan form to consider aspects of their limited political agency under an absolute monarch, while others, such as Brandon and Daniel, respond to similarly marginalized positions within both political and patronage networks. In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, this book addresses several gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.
Daniel Cadman is Associate Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
