Echoing Texts: George Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of ByronLund University, 2004 - 181 sivua Review: "Echoing Texts: George Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron is an intertextual study, offering a close comparative exploration of the discourses behind Chapman's text and the text itself with a view to activating the interpretive potential of the intertextual links. Chapter 2 investigates the French chronicle material from Edward Grimeston's General Inventorie and how Chapman's departures from this material influence our reading. Chapters 3 and 4 look at the effects of the classical subtexts, above all transpositions from Homer's Iliad, Plutarch's Moralia and Seneca's Oedipus, but also Lucan's Pharsalia. Chapter 5 deals with the cultural and political negotiations in the double play, tracing references to the earl of Essex and his rebellion and allusions to topical issues of Stuart kingship." "The intertextual reading projects a problematization of the concept of the patriarchical monarch and the absolute state and a veiling of the representative of liberty and individual heroism in a nostalgic light. Together with the overlays of meaning caused by the classical texts, the changes in the chronicle material and the topical allusions register an ideological stance. Repressed, represented in sometimes devious ways, Chapman's version of near-contemporary history nevertheless makes a powerful statement about the relationship between ruler and ruled, pointing to problems of contemporary statecraft."--BOOK JACKET |
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CONTENTS | 9 |
THE EMPLOTMENT | 21 |
CLASSICAL INTERTEXTS | 37 |
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Achilles adaptation Alexander Alexandri allusion aspiring authority Biron Braunmuller Bussy D'Ambois Byron plays Cambridge University Press carpet Chapman's Byron Chapman's Plays Charles de Gontaut Charles Duke chronicle claims classical Conspiracy and Tragedy contemporary Critical Culture death Diomedes discussion divine double play Duke of Byron earl of Essex echoes Eilert Ekwall Elizabethan England English Renaissance Epernon essay fate Fortune France French George Chapman Grimeston Gunilla Florby hath Henry's Hercules Hercules Oetaeus hero heroic honour Iliad intertextual Inventorie James's John justice King Henry king's lines literary Loeb London masque Middle English Moralia Mynott Oedipus Parrott passage peace Picoté's Plays of George Plutarch's political present primo frigido Prince Henry protagonist Queen quoted references Renaissance Drama Roy Strong royal Savoy Savoy's scene Schoell seems Seneca sexual Shakespeare simile Spain speaks speech Studies in English subtext textual tion Tragedy of Charles tragic translation virtue Williamson writes