The influence of Machiavelli’s «Il Principe» in English literature
Abstract The name of Machiavelli has had negative connotations through history. However, his best-known work, The Prince, was a reference and an inspiration both for the world of politics and of literature. Many English writers reflect in their works an unquestionable mark that dates back to the Elizabethan era. Playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jon-son created characters inspired by Machiavelli. More importantly, Shakespeare, with his great knowledge of human nature, was the best adapter of the ideas of pragmatism, power and poli-tical skill to immortal characters of the dramatic writing of his age. Later on, philosophers such as Bernard Mandeville, already in the 18th century, were attracted to the moral, religious and social concepts put forward by this famous Florentine thinker. Already in the 20th century, poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot devoted some of his essays to reevaluating the political thinking of Machiavelli and its repercussions on English literature.
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SHAKESPEARE, William. 1968. Teatro completo, 2 vols., Introducción, traducción y notas de José María Valverde. Barcelona: Planeta.
SHAKESPEARE, William. 1969. The Complete Works. Alfred Harbage (ed.). Baltimore: Penguin Books.
SHAKESPEARE, William. 1992. Hamlet, edición bilingüe del Instituto Shakespeare dirigida por Manuel Ángel Conejero. Madrid: Cátedra.
VICKERS, Brian. 1989. «Machiavelli and Marvell’s Horatian Ode». Notes and Queries, 36, 1 (1989), pp. 32-38.
VILCHES, Patricia et al. 2007. Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Prespectives on Machiavelli. Leiden: Brill.
WILLEY, Basil. 1986. The Eighteenth Century Background. London: ARK Paperbacks [1940].
WYATT, M. 2005. The Italian Encounter with Tudor England. A Cultural Politics of Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Álvarez Rodríguez, R. (2013). The influence of Machiavelli’s «Il Principe» in English literature. Revista De La Sociedad Española De Italianistas, 9, 19–41. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/dos/index.php/1576-7787/article/view/12849
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