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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... interest in the idea of the nation we need to look overseas for other examples. Kevin Sharpe has written of how the sixteenth century saw the Reformation produce a developed sense of nationality in France and Germany, an awareness which ...
... interest in an emphatically British past, but support for it. Interest in Britishness is not limited to literary studies. The ongoing historical debate regarding 'the British Problem', the relationship between the islands of Britain and ...
... interests and affiliations, of their compilers.17 Playwrights had to face censorship requirements and while it often transpired that they were able to bypass censors with plays set in conveniently distant historical periods, there were ...
... interest. The fact that it was the project of an intellectual dilettante should not lead us to believe that its demise as a political project saw its demise as an ideological one. While lacking the permanence of a political reality, the ...
... nature of the split between the idea of the internal empire – the relationship of the Scots within an imperial Britain – and the external empire, defending British interests from overseas powers. She continues, however: 'In 1600, Sir.
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