Interrogation and Subversion in the English Renaissance Drama
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Recent studies of Renaissance drama are faced with an interesting question regarding whether Renaissance drama, in the words of Jonathan Dollimore, “reinforce the dominant order” or whether they “interrogate it to the point of subversion.” Traditional critics understood theater, knowing or otherwise, as a participant in the efforts to represent and reinforce the dominant providential ideology of the state. More recently, however, Cultural Materialists critic such as Dollimore rejects such a view, choosing instead to emphasize how the plays interrogate and subvert the underlying official ideology of the period. Based on select readings of Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet and Henry V, as a case in point, it is the argument of this paper that Renaissance drama do offer aspects of interrogation and subversion that works to demystify the prevalent ideology of the period. As a means of subverting the “impulse towards containment,” both plays play upon the traditional expectations of providential history as a means of legitimation only to subvert and display the same ideological conventions through contradiction, parody and irony.
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Recent studies of Renaissance drama are faced with an interesting question regarding whether Renaissance drama, in the words of Jonathan Dollimore, “reinforce the dominant order” or whether they “interrogate it to the point of subversion.” Traditional critics understood theater, knowing or otherwise, as a participant in the efforts to represent and reinforce the dominant providential ideology of the state. More recently, however, Cultural Materialists critic such as Dollimore rejects such a view, choosing instead to emphasize how the plays interrogate and subvert the underlying official ideology of the period. Based on select readings of Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet and Henry V, as a case in point, it is the argument of this paper that Renaissance drama do offer aspects of interrogation and subversion that works to demystify the prevalent ideology of the period. As a means of subverting the “impulse towards containment,” both plays play upon the traditional expectations of providential history as a means of legitimation only to subvert and display the same ideological conventions through contradiction, parody and irony.
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