A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas HeywoodModern literary scholars have, for the most part, devoted little critical attention to that remarkable group of romance dramas featuring citizen heroes that flourished during the late Elizabethan period. Joseph Courtland's in-depth study remedies the situation by providing a fresh, cultural studies approach to this innovative hybrid of chivalric romance, viewing such adventure plays as literary works of colonial discourse within the mode of fantasy. Based principally on an approach to early modern romance as fantasy suggested by the writings of Tzvetan Todorov, Frederic Jameson, and Rosemary Jackson, the methodology employed in the analysis also incorporates the cultural materialist notion of Renaissance romance as colonial discourse. |
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... knight must frame ; In truth he always must be tried : this is the total charge That will receive a knightly name his honour to enlarge . ( S.C. , 3.11-20 ) Within these chivalric guidelines , Clyomon and Clamydes prove themselves to be ...
... knight must frame ; In truth he always must be tried : this is the total charge That will receive a knightly name his honour to enlarge . ( S.C. , 3.11-20 ) Within these chivalric guidelines , Clyomon and Clamydes prove themselves to be ...
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... knights bound in union to defeat the dragon of St. George , now re - identified as the pope . ' >> 4 The fact that ... knight - errant courtiers , she , like her Tudor forebears , was not averse to manipulating the chivalric code for ...
... knights bound in union to defeat the dragon of St. George , now re - identified as the pope . ' >> 4 The fact that ... knight - errant courtiers , she , like her Tudor forebears , was not averse to manipulating the chivalric code for ...
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... Knight , The Irish Knight , The Solitary Knight , The Knight in the Burning Rock , The Soldan and the Duke of ...... .. Gibbons 212 ; see also Russell 111 . 13. William Haller , Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation ( London ...
... Knight , The Irish Knight , The Solitary Knight , The Knight in the Burning Rock , The Soldan and the Duke of ...... .. Gibbons 212 ; see also Russell 111 . 13. William Haller , Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation ( London ...
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