Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo Senecan Drama Republicanism Stoicism and Authority Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama 1st Edition Daniel Cadman 1317052110 9781317052111

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• ISBN 10: 1317052110
• ISBN 13: 9781317052111
• Author: Daniel Cadman

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 Jonson and Thomas Kyd – as a coherent group. Daniel Cadman suggests these works interrogate the relations between sovereigns and subjects during the early modern period by engaging with the humanist discourses of republicanism and stoicism. Cadman argues that the texts under study probe various aspects of this dynamic and illuminate the ways in which stoicism and republicanism provide essential frameworks for negotiating this relationship between the marginalized courtier and the absolute sovereign. He demonstrates how aristocrats and courtiers, such as Sidney, Greville, Alexander, and Cary, were able to use the neo-Senecan form to consider aspects of their limited political agency under an absolute monarch, while others, such as Brandon and Daniel, respond to similarly marginalized positions within both political and patronage networks.

Table of contents:

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 Brandon

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

4 William Alexander’s Darius and The Alexandræan Tragedy, and Samuel Daniel’s 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 Sejanus and Catiline

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

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