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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... Scottish king facilitated the internationalisation of the English monarchy as James, married to a Dane, used the prospect of marriage alliances for his children to bring his kingdoms firmly onto the European stage. In Britain this ...
... Scottish and English national past.15 Consequently, it will be argued that Great Britain actually came to life for a short period at the beginning of the seventeenth century and that if subsequent developments such as Oliver Cromwell's ...
... Scottish plantations in Ulster to 1625: a reinterpretation', Journal of British Studies 32 (1993), 24–43. For examples of toleration and support given to Catholics in Jacobean Ireland, see T. W. Moody, The Londonderry Plantation 1609 ...
... same 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.
... Scottish monarch whose uniting of the kingdoms resulted in a spate of popular drama discoursing on the ancient entity of Great Britain. It was a matter very much in the public eye and, given that a play's subject matter had to be ...
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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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