Lee, Nathaniel | A. L. Cooke and Thomas B. Stroup (essay date October 1950)
A. L. Cooke and Thomas B. Stroup (essay date October 1950)
SOURCE: Cooke, A. L., and Thomas B. Stroup. “The Political Implications in Lee's Constantine the Great.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 49, no. 4 (October 1950): 506-15.
[In this essay, Cooke and Stroup argue that Constantine the Great was a political play that made veiled references to contemporary events, including the Popish Plot and the Rye House Plot.]
Several scholars have called attention to a few political echoes in Nathaniel Lee's last play, Constantine the Great (D.L., Nov., 1683). Montague Summers lists Arius as one of the stage characters who satirize Shaftesbury.1 Roswell Ham in his biography of Lee ignores the political implications of the play altogether.2 Ghosh discusses the political references of the prologue and epilogue, but he is not concerned with the political implications in the play...
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