Download or read book Politics and Tropes in Renaissance History Plays written by Mitali P. Wong and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most original expression of the English literature of the Renaissance is, without a doubt, its dramatic production. Up to 1616, including Shakespeare, English dramatists presented a complex array of plays that are often hard to classify. In this study, by focusing on tropes and rhetoric, new windows of interpretation are opened; some of the plays had been neglected by critics.