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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... theatre, 1603–c.1614', a project which in turn had its origins in the Cambridge Historical Tripos option 'The British Problem, c.1534–1707' which I studied in my final year as undergraduate. I was immediately drawn to the wider themes ...
... theatre in the Jacobean period. More specifically, it looks at the creation of a British identity brought about by the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the English throne in 1603. This evocation of 'Britishness' is at the heart ...
... theatres was staging the lives of a group of earlier British rulers, among them Lear, Cymbeline and Elidure. What emerges from a study of these plays is the idea that fames was actually extremely successful, whether he intended to be or ...
... theatre alongside the masques his conclusion would be very different, as the stage did put forward images expressing not only an interest in an emphatically British past, but support for it. Interest in Britishness is not limited to ...
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