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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... specific parallels within plays in the later years of James's reign do allow a more transparent relation of current affairs – The Maid of Honour stands out in this respect. Yet the danger faced by both literary critics and cultural ...
... specific Biblical instruction for good government to spread itself. William Alexander, caught up in the euphoria of James's accession, made the expansionist claim in 1604 that Britain was As aptest so to rule the Realmes about, She by ...
... specific manifestation of the British age.100 Just as James rejected everything else from his former tutor's teachings, so too he rejected Buchanan's distaste for imperial authority. For James the process of civilisation, whether it was ...
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