Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama

by Doyeeta Majumder

Book Overview

In 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 principe nuove, was the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own 'virt ' and through an act of 'lawmaking' violence. Early Tudor morality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800854684
• ISBN13: 9781800854680
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"