1st Edition

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority

By Daniel Cadman Copyright 2016
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ’closet drama’, during the years 1590-1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben... Read more

Introduction



1 ' The hurtful works of pleasure here behold': Stoicism and Sovereignty in Mary Sidney's Antonius



2 'Plurality of Caesars': Politics, Stoicism, and Exemplarity in the Roman Plays of Thomas Kyd, Samuel Daniel, and Samuel Brandom



3 Giving Tyrants Fame: Fulke Greville's Mustapha and  Alaham



4 William Alexander's Darius and The Alexandroean Tragedy, and Samual Daniels Philotas



5 'The losse of that which fortune lends': William Alexander's Croesus and Julius Caesar



6 'Insolent fictions of the tragic scene': Stoicism and Republicanism in Ben Jonson's Sejamus and Catiline



7 'The news we heard did tell the tyrant's end': Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam



Conclusion

Biography

Daniel Cadman is Associate Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.