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- Title
Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England.
- Authors
Gianoutsos, Jamie
- Abstract
This article provides one of the first studies of two late works by George Chapman, “Pro Vere” (1622) and “A iustification of a strange action of Nero” (1629). Through a close examination of these works, and through situating Chapman’s texts alongside other neglected works of the 1620s that voiced opposition to the Stuart court and kings, the article examines the critical and subversive role that classical history and gendered language played in forging ideological conflict in England during the Stuart period. More broadly, the article seeks to demonstrate the importance of studying imaginative writings for understanding Stuart political culture.
- Subjects
CHAPMAN, George, ca. 1559-1634; PAMPHLETS; ENGLISH political satire; EARLY Stuart Period, Great Britain, 1603-1649; STREET literature; DESPOTISM in literature; MASCULINITY in literature; CLASSICISM in literature; SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2017, Vol 70, Issue 4, p1366
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/695349