Theatre and empire: Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and IManchester University Press, 30 d’abr. 2018 - 224 pàgines Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain; and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. |
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... Caesar. Put simply, identification with Rome was a prelude to overseas expansion – the idea of overseas conquest being derived ultimately from Roman imperial rule over large territories. If Rome's might and civilisation were to be used ...
... Caesar, wil not be wanting to adde a fourth'.39 Such propaganda implied that, with imperium having recreated the ancient British glory, that glory could and ought now to be exported to others, that they might share in the blessing of a ...
... Caesar with his Romane Legions (or some other) had not laid the ground to make us tame and ciuill'.70 The title of his work, Nova Britannia, should indicate immediately that Virginia was an extension of the British imperium in the same ...
... Caesar, Hengist and William the Conqueror framing Britannia herself, a woman bearing a cornucopia of plenty. If the monarchs were now marginalised, with the land taking the central position, this did not actually imply an attack on the ...
... effused how 'out of the ashes of this Phoenix wert thou, King James, borne for our good, the bright starre of the North'.119 Henry Petowe's 1603 poem reporting James's coronation, England's Caesar, claimed that the king was 'the Phoenix of.
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