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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... mean far more to those Britons not living on the British mainland than it did to those who were. The manner in which the plantation went ahead stands in marked contrast to the emphatically English cultural imperialism expressed by Sir ...
... nevertheless enough incidents of royal displeasure and consequent incarceration to make a playwright think twice before writing 'dangerous matter'. Yet by claiming that plays comment on contemporary issues this does not mean to suggest.
... mean to suggest that they necessarily allow us to see in every case clearly identifiable persons and situations depicted. That said, there are a few instances where specific parallels within plays in the later years of James's reign do ...
... means on the decline in 1603–14. At the dawn of the Stuart age, the theatre described a vision of the British past as well as its future, drawing not only on the recent years of expansion into Ireland and Virginia, but on semi-mythical ...
... 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 interpretation of where the power lay within it and what it ...
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