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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... religion and overseas exploration. This study will therefore be at odds with Parry's view that the claims of empire 'needed to be given to a far broader audience than the court, but they were not' and that 'the Stuart line was the less ...
... religion for another generation. Yet Phelips's words prompt us to look at one particular idea, one which was to challenge both parliament and public alike when the Scot came to proclaim his desire to be King of Great Britain. Whether ...
... religion in the early part of the seventeenth century, concerned primarily with defending the 'beleaguered isle' from European Catholicism, both physically and in scholarly debate. Ussher published the first of his works towards a large ...
... religion. Stuart propagandists could cite the conclusion to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History: Cadwallader, the last King of the Britons, had been told by an angel 'that the people of the Britons should again possess the island by merit of ...
... religion: James was thus the inheritor of the mantle of that last emperor to defend Christianity, Constantine. Gordon wrote that the new British king might use his extended powers as monarch of England and Scotland for the deliuery of ...
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