The iconography of power : ideas and images of rulership on the English Renaissance stage

Folger bibliographic ID: 115491
Folger call number: PR649.P6 I36 2000
Folger holdings ID: 110393

General notes

"This collection had its origins in a number of papers given at the ESSE/4 conference held at Debrecen in September 1997"--p. 1 Includes bibliographical references

Contents

Matching the 'falles of princes' and 'Machiavell" : tradition and subversion in the historiography and iconography of Shakespeare's histories / György E. Szőnyi -- Cupid and Eliza : variations on a Virgilians icon in plays by Gager, Lyly, and Marlowe / Michael Pincombe -- 'So potent art' : magic power in Marlowe, Greene and Shakespeare / Andreas Höfele -- 'Monstrous regiment' : staging female rule / Lisa Hopkins -- Elizabethan constructions of kingship and the stage / Grace Tiffany -- Historico-tragico-comical kings : genre conventions and-as emblems of power in Shakespeare's histories / Michele Stanco -- Chivalry, monarchy and rebellion in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 / Glen Mynott -- Emblems of the polity : the wounds of rhetoric and the body politic in Shakespeare's Rome / András Kiséry -- The anxiety of power and Shakespeare's Macbeth / Clifford Davidson -- The semiotics of the skull : emblematic agency in The revenger's tragedy / Attila Kiss

Extended title: The iconography of power : ideas and images of rulership on the English Renaissance stage / György E. Szőnyi & Rowland Wymar

English drama Politics and literature Political plays, English Kings and rulers in literature

associated with: Szőnyi, György Endre
associated with: Wymer, Rowland