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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... concerned primarily with defending the 'beleaguered isle' from European Catholicism, both physically and in ... concerns in their dealings with the natives, and the scornful attitude of the Powhatans to the suggestion that they should ...
... 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.
... concern with overseas empire did not necessarily mean the search for world domination.19 Both those who backed Union and those who did not accepted that there was a new imperium in existence. The difference occurred in their ...
... concern to members of the Scottish parliament.23 As a result of the Union in 1603, those writings on empire which referred to the imperium split into two strands, corresponding to a pro-or anti-Union stance. Those who were recalcitrant ...
... concern that James should have the Irish crown did not mean, as Morrill notes, that the Catholic Irish and the descendants of Anglo-Norman settlers should be able to claim 'cives Britannici sunt': the plantation of Britons among them ...
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Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Tristan Marshall Previsualització limitada - 2000 |
Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Tristan Marshall Visualització de fragments - 2000 |
Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Tristan Marshall Previsualització no disponible - 2020 |