'Those Graue presentments of antiquitie' Samuel Daniel's Philotas and the Earl of Essex
2000; Oxford University Press; Volume: 51; Issue: 203 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/res/51.203.423
ISSN1471-6968
Autores Tópico(s)Philippine History and Culture
ResumoThis article offers the first sustained critical examination of Samuel Daniel's The Tragedie of Philotas since Michel's edition more than fifty years ago, and presents new evidence which confirms the Jacobean authorities' suspicions that Daniel had designed his historical drama as a political allegory of the downfall of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex It begins by reviewing the record of the plav's original court performance, and of the government's censorious reaction to it It surveys modern critical comment on the issue of the play's alleged allegory, and analyses Daniel's confused account of its composition, establishing what it takes to be its chronology It considers Daniel's use of his sources, showing how he adapted material from the Latin of Quintus Curtius and from that historian's Tudor translator It then presents the case for reading the play as a political drame a def, demonstrating the parallels that Daniel artfully drew between his tragic hero and Essex, and, crucially, establishing that a quotation from Essey's own Apologie provided the key to the play's covert import In conclusion, it looks at ther implications of these findings for our wider appreciation of the play and of Daniel's art generally
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