Civil Idolatry - Desacralizing and Monarchy in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

This work discusses important texts that scrutinize the cult of monarchy in light of the injunction against idolatry. When Milton deplored the civil kind of idolatry, he echoed a significant theme in earlier texts -- Erasmus's political writings, Spenser, and Shakespeare's political plays. Milton redefines conquest and fatherhood in response to contemporary monarchists' patriarchalism and conquest-theory.

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• Authors: Richard Hardin, Richard F Hardin, Richard F. Hardin, Hardin Richard F.
• Publisher: Associated universities press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780874134261
• ISBN: 978-0-87413-426-1
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800