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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... islands of Britain and Ireland in the early modern period, continues to prompt the question as to how Britain was conceived at the dawn of the seventeenth century.11 It was not just a matter for courts and courtiers,
... island. King James's recreation of Britain was not a pipe dream used to throw English zealots off guard. It was a genuine interest. The fact that it was the project of an intellectual dilettante should not lead us to believe that its ...
... Island of Britain which graced the accession medal of the Scottish claimant, was what mattered'. This chapter will suggest that this was not in fact so. DEFINITIONS While the term 'empire' is used in the early seventeenth century as ...
... island of Britain, with 'this England'.7 With the arrival on the English throne of a king who proposed to reestablish the Kingdom of Great Britain proper, those who backed a strong English national assertiveness over the Scots could no ...
... 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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Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Tristan Marshall Previsualització limitada - 2000 |
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Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Tristan Marshall Previsualització no disponible - 2020 |