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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... the start the view that the creation of a greater Britain was an unrealistic aspiration, a higher bargaining position from which he would later retreat to secure his real aim INTRODUCTION and I and the re-invention of Great Britain.
... later retreat to secure his real aim of toleration. However, when she writes that 'he manifestly failed to achieve any sort of “British” kingship' we need to be wary because in one important domain he did.2 According to James Stuart ...
... later. This Jacobean Great Britain was not then some flash in the pan, some chimerical flight of personal whimsy on behalf of a thirty-seven-year-old Scot suddenly in 1603 rich beyond his wildest dreams. To use Benedict Anderson's ...
... later years of James's reign do allow a more transparent relation of current affairs – The Maid of Honour stands out in this respect. Yet the danger faced by both literary critics and cultural historians in attempting a reductionist ...
... later with the connotations of overseas colonising, I shall differentiate between the two meanings by referring to the former definition as imperium, allowing for the latter use the term empire. The Oxford English Dictionary ...
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