The Unhappy Favourite; Or the Earl of Essex a Tragedy (1682) de John Banks (c. 1650?-1706) : vers le ׅ« héros stupide » ?

In John Banks’s The Unhappy Favourite ; Or the Earl of Essex a Tragedy (1682), a « she-tragedy », the representation of the earl of Essex bears the hallmark of late XVIIth-century English drama. This character, surrounded by the three dominant female figures of Queen Elizabeth, the countess of Notti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilles Bertheau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2009-10-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/685