{"product_id":"tyranny-and-usurpation-the-new-prince-and-lawmaking-violence-in-early-modern-drama-9781800854680","title":"Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the ‘tyrant by entrie’ or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ‘tyrant by the administration’ as the main antihero of political drama. This usurper or, in Machiavellian terms \u003ci\u003eprincipe nuove\u003c\/i\u003e, was the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own ‘\u003ci\u003evirtù\u003c\/i\u003e’ and through an act of ‘lawmaking’ violence. Early Tudor morality plays were exclusively concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant; in the political drama of the first half of the sixteenth century, we do not encounter a single instance of usurpation among the texts that are still available to us. In contrast, the historical and tragic plays of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods teem with illegitimate monarchs. Almost all of Shakespeare’s history plays, at least four of his ten tragedies, and even a few of his comedies feature usurpation or potential usurpation of sovereign power as a crucial plot device. Why and how does usurpation emerge as a preoccupation in English theatre? What are the political, historical, legal, and dramaturgical transformations that influence and are influenced by this moment of emergence? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the first book-length study devoted exclusively to the study of usurpation and tyranny in sixteenth-century drama and politics, \u003ci\u003eTyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence\u003c\/i\u003e will challenge existing disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with these critical questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews'Original scholarship of significant value to the academic study of the intersections between drama and politics in the early modern period; its strengths lie in its wide coverage of dramatic texts, from political moralities to Senecan tragedies, and from university dramas to histories of the commercial stage; its combination of these dramatic texts with the analysis of a variety of political materials; and its dual focus on the historical and political contexts of both England and Scotland.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDr Clare Egan, Lancaster University\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[A] perceptive study... [Majumder] examines a span of English and Scottish works, from John Skelton’s \u003ci\u003eMagnificence\u003c\/i\u003e, through David Lindsay’s \u003ci\u003eAne Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis\u003c\/i\u003e and George Buchanan’s literary and polemical work, to the Richard III plays of the late 1500s, identifying a crucial shift in the ways in which tyranny and its relationship to usurpation were represented.'\u003cbr\u003eLucy Munro, \u003ci\u003eSEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoyeeta Majumder [provides] a refreshing approach to what has become one of the most discussed topics in Shakespearean studies—that of the expression and negotiation of authority on the stage. [...] It is the final chapter that offers a truly original approach to the issues of tyranny and usurpation in its consideration of three versions of Richard III. [...] Majumder’s analysis takes into consideration the particular audiences and literary conceits employed in each play and offers nuanced and intelligent readings that expose the constant contestation and fluidity of supreme authority.'\u003cbr\u003eBen Haworth, \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Spellings and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: The Kingly Vice: The Tyrant in Early Tudor Drama\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Sovereignty, Counsel, and Consent in Scotland: \u003ci\u003eAne Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Artful Construction of the Political Realm: Buchanan and the Legitimacy of Resistance\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: \u003ci\u003eGorboduc\u003c\/i\u003e: Absolutist Decision and the Two Bodies of the King\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Tyranny Added to Usurpation: \u003ci\u003eRichardus Tertius, The True Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470070714711,"sku":"9781800854680","price":31.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800854680.jpg?v=1744897311","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tyranny-and-usurpation-the-new-prince-and-lawmaking-violence-in-early-modern-drama-9781800854680","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}