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 subject of a process of redefinition and renegotiation as royal aspirations mixed with literary and political ambitions.14 While Linda Colley's work argued for the creation of an exclusively Protestant Britishness in the eighteenth and.
... royal policy and its ramifications, could be interpreted by an audience as a potential alternative view to the motivations and principles of the hierarchy under which they live. At the same time, it is important to admit the problems ...
... were 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 ...
... think of the two words as being synonymous. It is in this context that John of Gaunt's moving speech in Shakespeare's Richard II (written in 1595) is best understood: This royal throne of kings, this scepter'disle, This earth of.
... unmarried Elizabeth saw the Armada attempts of 1588, 1596 and 1597 which led to a myth not of victory but of deliverance, while the desire to secure England at home from the dangers of a Franco-Spanish alliance led to a royal.
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