Politics and Tropes in Renaissance History Plays: Understanding a Neglected Genre

Politics and Tropes in Renaissance History Plays: Understanding a Neglected Genre
ISBN-10
0773456872
ISBN-13
9780773456877
Category
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Pages
167
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Edwin Mellen Press
Author
Mitali P. Wong

Description

The most original expression of the English literature of the Renaissance is, without a doubt, its dramatic production. Up to 1616, including Shakespeare, English dramatists presented a complex array of plays that are often hard to classify. In this study, by focusing on tropes and rhetoric, new windows of interpretation are opened; some of the plays had been neglected by critics.

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