Title: Marriage relationships in Tudor political drama /
Authors: Winkelman, Michael A.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2005
Subjects: English drama History and criticism; Marriage in literature.; Politics and literature Great Britain History; Literature and society Great Britain History; Political plays, English History and criticism.; Married people in literature
Abstract: "While several recent studies have investigated the political dimensions of sixteenth-century English drama, until now there has not been a monograph that tells the story of how and why royal marital selection was examined. By linking court interludes, neoclassical university tragedies, and popular plays by late Elizabethan dramatists Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, and William Shakespeare to the inflammatory topic of Tudor marriage, Michael Winkelman demonstrates their cultural centrality. This new work interrogates the symbolic, allusive, and mimetic aspects of marital relationships in such plays."