Rebecca W. Bushnell here explores the image of the tyrant in English Renaissance drama in light of the traditional opposition between the "proper" king and the unstable, effeminate, and histrionic tyrant found so often in Western political treatises...
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Rebecca W. Bushnell here explores the image of the tyrant in English Renaissance drama in light of the traditional opposition between the "proper" king and the unstable, effeminate, and histrionic tyrant found so often in Western political treatises...
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Minor rubbing. Some slight page-edge soil. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, xv, 195 pp. Contents: The Subject of Tyranny; The Likeness of the Adversary: Renaissance Tyrants; Tyrannical Vices: Morality Plays & Humanist Dramas; Thriftless Ambition: The Tyrants of Shakespeare & Jonson; Tyrannical Theater. The Plays of Stuart Tyrants.