Jonson's humanist tragedies

Cain, Tom; Cousins, A. D.; Scott, Alison V.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511575648.008

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“…While Jonson's sources for his tragedies are classical, 'humanist' historians like Camden and Robert Cotton influenced his methods. 61 Jonson writes 'humanist' tragedies, appropriating historical events as analogues for contemporary circumstances. 62 Sejanus and Catiline dramatize periods of tyranny, and mark Jonson's increasing championing of 'freedom of speech and limitation of the absolute powers of the monarch'.…”

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