Matthew Gwinne's Nero tragaedia nova: Custom and Innovation in Late Elizabethan England
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Matthew Gwinne, Nero, Elizabethan England, Neostoicism, Montaigne, successionAbstract
This paper considers Matthew Gwinne’s Nero tragaedia nova (1603) and how the playwright treats the themes of custom and innovation to explore contemporary Elizabethan politics. The article reads Gwinne’s work in the context of late Elizabethan interest in Neostoicism, and examines how Gwinne deploys the language of Neostoicism to comment on the Elizabethan succession crisis.
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