Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe
Western Anti-Monarchism, The Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft
Chris Fitter
Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe
Western Anti-Monarchism, The Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft
Chris Fitter
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Founded on an unprecedented and wide-ranging study of anti-monarchist thought, Majesty and the Masses presents a significant contribution to Shakespeare and Marlowe criticism, studies of Tudor England, and the history of ideas.
"Chris Fitter's survey of Western anti-monarchism "spans the first two chapters (134 pages), which review Greek, Roman, Biblical and medieval sources as well as an international set of humanists. The range here is impressive: more than forty writers, some of whom are represented in multiple texts. . . The quotations are well-chosen, and the overview is fascinating. . . Fitter handles the complexities of humanist statecraft in a compelling fashion. . .Energetic readings of plays keep their artistic status front and center, making a refreshing argument for political interpretation. . . Any future effort to locate Shakespeare in a royalist camp will have to reckon with this book."
--Theodore Nollert, Ben Jonson Journal
Chris Fitter was educated at Oxford, taking his doctorate from St. John’s College. Professor of English at Rutgers University at Camden, his three previous books are Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory (Cambridge, 1994); Radical Shakespeare: Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career (Routledge, 2012); Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners: Digesting the New Social History (Oxford, 2017). He is author also of twenty journal essays and book chapters, and two dozen book reviews.