科图分类法:	I561.073/32 版次：
中图分类法:	I561.073 版次：
著者:	Cadman, Daniel.
题名:	Sovereigns and subjects in early modern neo-Senecan drama : [ republicanism, stoicism and authority /] / ,
出版发行:	出版地： London : 出版社： Routledge, 出版日期： 2019.
载体形态:	x, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
附注:	Originally published: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
内容提要:	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.
主题词:	English drama History and criticism. Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
主题词:	English drama History and criticism. 17th century
主题词:	Verse drama, English History and criticism.
主题词:	Kings and rulers in literature.
主题词:	Republicanism in literature.
主题词:	Authority in literature.
索书号:	I561.073/32