@inbook{389a53fb16844d488584d611fc6208da,
title = "In King Cambyses' Vein Representing Achaemenid Royal Figures in The Godly Queen Hester, The Story of King Darius and Cambyses",
abstract = "This chapter explores the thematic significance and metatheatrical role of the figure of the monarch in three early Renaissance plays set in ancient Persia: The Godly Queen Hester, The Story of King Darius and Cambyses. The chapter tries to show that while the allegorical usefulness of the Persian kings hindered their development into the fully fledged characters of late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the secularization of Biblical narratives about Persian kings in the interludes and the excessive cruelty of King Cambyses in the eponymous play result in the explosion of the medieval structure. New paradigms of human subjectivity emerge from the transition.",
author = "Nizar Zouidi",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.4324/9781003362548",
language = "American English",
isbn = " 9781003830511 ",
series = "Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture",
publisher = "Routledge",
editor = "NIZAR ZOUIDI",
booktitle = "The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema: Western and Global Perspectives",
address = "United States",
}