“What signifies my deadly-standing eye”: the politics of difference on the Elizabethan stage

Abstract

… Kings indeed are deities.
And who'd not (as the sun) in brightnesse shine?…
Who among millions would not be the mightiest?
To sit in God-like state, to have all eyes,
Dazled with admiration, and all tongues
Showting lowd Praiers…
(Lust's Dominion, or, the Lascivious Queen 5.1. 16-22)

Shakespeare in Southern Africa Vol. 14 2002: pp. 11-24