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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... of a process of redefinition and renegotiation as royal aspirations mixed with literary and political ambitions.14 While Linda Colley's work argued for the creation of an exclusively Protestant Britishness in the eighteenth and.
... Protestant Britishness in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this study is deliberately confined to the early seventeenth century, that brief period when discourse of 'Britishness' was most intensive and modern ideas of a ...
... Protestant politics in the early Stuart period', The Seventeenth Century 1 (1986), 81–110; David Norbrook, 'The reformation of the masque' in David Lindley (ed.), The Court Masque (Manchester University Press, 1984),
... Protestant religion for another generation. Yet Phelips's words prompt us to look at one particular idea, one which was to challenge both parliament and public alike when the Scot came to proclaim his desire to be King of Great Britain ...
... was indeed to emerge 'the enduring notion of a British monarchy which was both Protestant and imperial', but it would be one whose concern with empire would be firmly rooted on this island and one whose raison d'être was.
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