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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... called great Brittaine'. The book in Latin was Robert Pont's De unione Britanniae, seu de regnorum Angliae et Scotie (London, 1604).12 That his cousin had bought a copy and was showing it off, coupled with Winthrop hearing of the king's ...
... called 'Great Britain' was perceived there were significant changes which force us to draw a figurative line between the reigns. The Shakespeare who wrote in the Jacobean age wrote very different plays from his Elizabethan canon, plays ...
... called the 'imperial theme', throughout this study lies within a corpus of ideas, insular in nature, largely though not exclusively dependent on Protestantism and increasingly militant. It was a thinking influenced by the Reformation's ...
... called Englande the onely supreme seat of thempire of great Briteigne'. Odet de Selve's version of Somerset's proposal to Huntly at the beginning of 1548 for the suppression of England and Scotland was for their replacement 'en ung ...
... called. We cannot dismiss James's view of a recreated Britain as a complete failure, because it succeeded at least in one critical respect: he did become King of England in 1603. This factor is missed by Keith Brown, who writes.
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