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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... sense as that used in England in the aftermath of Henry VIII's break with Rome, or with some new meaning in the light of the accession of the Scottish king, provokes us to ask what exactly the early Jacobean period A Jacobean empire.
... Henry VIII's definition of “empire” as a kingdom free from outside influence or interference, not this time to resist the mighty claims of the Papacy, but to deal with a little domestic matter, the infiltration of the Scots', is useful ...
... Henry Spelman noted that the term was 'diversely taken' and he debated the meaning of Britain in terms of her possessions: 'The Auncyentes attributed the name of Brytane not only to this isle but also to Irelande and all other the ...
... Henry Campion described 'that Phoenix rare, whom all were loath to leaue'.117 Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas's Divine Weeks and Works (1608) mused: 'from spicie Ashes to the sacred URNE Of our dead Phoenix (dear ELIZABETH). A new ...
... Henry was lamented by Christopher Brooke – '... this Phoenix... haue sacrificed his life in funerall flame' – while Protestant hopes were transferred to his sister and her husband, of which couple Robert Alleyne wrote: As Phoenix burnes ...
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Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Tristan Marshall Previsualització limitada - 2000 |
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