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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Irish, Bradley J

Titel

Libels and the Essex Rising

Ist Teil von

• Notes and queries, 2012-03, Vol.59 (1), p.87-89

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On Sunday, Feb 8, 1601, the Earl of Essex and his partisans famously took to the streets of London, in an event that would be remembered as perhaps the last major political crisis in the long, turbulent reign of Queen Elizabeth I. One day before the ill-fated uprising, several prominent members of the Essex circle (but not the earl himself) commissioned and attended a play 'of Kyng Harry the iiiith, and of the kyllyng of Kyng Richard the Second played by the Lord Chamberlens players'-a drama that, quite probably, was none other than Shakespeare's King Richard II. With good reason, literary scholars have long fixated on the relationship of these two events, deeming the intersection of Richard II and the Essex Rebellion a particularly meaningful example of how literature participated in the working--and unworking--of early modern political structures. Irish examines the how these literary forces integrated literary and historical study by focusing of the Essex/Richard II case.