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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... rule as a just virgin ruling a chosen people. In 1603 the virgin died, but the imperial aspect of the monarch of England's rule did not. The most significant hurdle facing the historian seeking to understand.
... , pushed conversion off the agenda in the first years of settlement.12 The theory of this religious mission remained alive back in London, however, along with the idea of the great benefits which James Stuart's rule could bring to.
... rule could bring to other peoples. Though we should be aware of its ultimate failings when it was brought there, Protestantism was indeed to be the first of the commodities shipped to the New World.13 This drive was not, of course, at ...
... rule of Scotland was his first duty, a matter which was also of immediate concern to members of the Scottish parliament.23 As a result of the Union in 1603, those writings on empire which referred to the imperium split into two strands ...
... rule over large territories. If Rome's might and civilisation were to be used as standards for the Jacobean Britons, it was also useful for a pre-Roman British imperium to have existed. The dedication to Prince Henry in Drayton's Poly ...
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