The hurtful works of pleasure here behold: Mary Sidney's Antonius -- Plurality of Caesars: the Roman plays of Thomas Kyd, Samuel Daniel, and Samuel Brandon -- Giving tyrants fame: Fulke Greville's Mustapha and Alaham -- William Alexander's Darius and the Alexandræan tragedy, and Samuel Daniel's Philotas -- The losse of that which fortune lends: William Alexander's Croesus and Julius Caesar -- Insolent fictions of the tragic scene: stoicism and republicanism in Ben Jonson's Sejanus and Catiline -- The news we heard did tell the tyrant's end: Elizabeth Cary's The tragedy of Mariam.
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