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Tyranny and usurpation : the new prince and lawmaking violence in early modern drama

Majumder, Doyeeta, author, English Association, associated with work

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Subject: English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. / Despotism in literature. / Dictatorship in literature. / Dictators in literature.
• ISBN: 1786941686, 9781786941688

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR658.P65 M35 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE