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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... Charles V and Charles IX of France, Elizabeth took on much of the imagery of imperial rule as a just virgin ruling a chosen people. In 1603 the virgin died, but the imperial aspect of the monarch of England's rule did not. The most ...
... kingship – Psalm 104:16 notes that 'the trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted'. Thus John Brinsley wrote of the Princes Henry and Charles as 'the flourishing branches, of that happy spreading Cedar'
Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and I Tristan Marshall. Charles as 'the flourishing branches, of that happy spreading Cedar' while Harbert recognized that 'the Cedar falles in time, so Kings decay'.124 One of the most ...
... Charles lames Steuart. CLAIMES ARTHVRES SEATE' which declared James's 'vndoubted rightfull claime to the Monarchy of Britan, as the successor of the valorous king Arthur'.130 Also in 1605, William Warner wrote of the return of Arthur as ...
... Charles IX's coat of arms – some depictions of the device had the added imperial motto Plus Ultra – while Herculean pillars were used to celebrate the imperial rule of Charles V, as illustrated by his device in Paolo Giovio's Dialogo ...
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