Character and Cosmos in Marston's "Malcontent"

Clark, Ira

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“…Ira Clark has described Marston's copious use of 'past and invented' aphorisms as presentations of the various characters' moral natures. 24 Nonetheless, he acknowledges that even the evil Mendoza can be morally acute at times and Malevole occasionally offers libertine or cynical sayings to entrap others. These bits of conventional wisdom, in other words, are flatly contradictory -with one another, with what we expect of the character, with events in the play -and thus conspicuously unreliable.…”

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Knowledge and experience in the ‘disguised duke’ play

Leonidas

2020

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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Seventeenth-century English dramatists produced several ‘disguised duke’ plays in which a ruler disguises himself to reinforce political control. Critics typically view these as a call for monarchs to address corruption at court. But such readers have largely ignored the epistemological shift represented: knowledge is based on circulation among, observation of, and dialogue with citizens rather than on textual traditions. Together, the plays legitimise the knowledge and experience of observers immersed in London’s daily life, playwrights included. Moreover, the disguised ruler motif also contributed to the social practices through which ‘new’ empirical forms of knowledge gained authority.

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