Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

<p><em>The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama</em> historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays 1579-c.1634 by William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I James I and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority magnificence and entertainment many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it instead as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.</p>