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Zusatztext "This text offers a provocative and careful study that reassesses the role of the Tower of London by examining the architectural building as a theatrical showplace and an icon of terror in the early modern period. Deiter does a wonderful job of establishing that dramatic representations of the Tower expanded its iconographic meaning by focusing on the Tower as a site of instability! rather than of royal authority. She places her analysis within a larger historical context and a reading of a significant number of cultural artifacts! including diaries! portraits! tracts! poetry! ballads! and woodcuts?Readers interested in scholarship on cultural studies of architecture! artifacts! and the theater as a place for commentary on social and political dissent will find Deiter's book of particular interest as it makes important contributions to each of these realms of inquiry." --Anne-Marie E. Schuler! Ohio State University! Sixteenth Century Journal Informationen zum Autor Kristen Deiter is Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee Technological University, USA. Klappentext Historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays! 1579-c 1634! by William Shakespeare! Christopher Marlowe and others. Zusammenfassung Historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c 1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Introduction: Historicizing Original Tower Play AudiencesChapter Two: The Tower of London as a Cultural Icon before the Tower PlaysChapter Three: Stage vs. State: The Struggle for the TowerChapter Four: The Tower of London: Dramatic Emblem of OppositionChapter Five: Reading English Nationhood in the Dramatic Tower of LondonCoda: The Tower of London: An Evolving IconNotesBibliographyIndex ...
