Politics and Tropes in Renaissance History Plays

Understanding a Neglected Genre

• Author(s): Mitali P. Wong,
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Pages: 167
• ISBN_10: 0773456872
  ISBN_13: 9780773456877
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , History / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) , Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric , Language Arts & Disciplines / Style Manuals , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Drama , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics ,

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.