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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... matters with David Smith, whose advice and support I continue to prize highly. At the University of Ulster, Keith Lindley has been enormously helpful and I have been extremely fortunate to benefit from Bob Hunter's encyclopaedic ...
... 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,
... matter for courts and courtiers, or for politicians and (as we shall see) playwrights. Out in the English countryside, Adam Winthrop was writing a diary when James Stuart came to the English throne. He recorded everyday events ...
... matter. He does not advocate an alternative foreign policy and makes no claim to challenge the religious hegemony of his country. His only material foe is Othello. There is a danger that historians can be too zealous in trying to fit ...
... the playwrights themselves regarding one matter then much talked about, namely King James's attempt to turn London into the capital of Great Britain. According to Kendrick, in British Antiquity: Shakespeare would have nothing.
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