Theatre and government under the early Stuarts
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Theatre and government under the early Stuarts
Cambridge University Press, 1993
Available at 29 libraries
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Collected essays originating from a conference held at Stratford on Avon in October 1987, and a seminar at the University of Warwick in November 1988
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of commissioned essays by established scholars, responds to critical debate on political theatre of the turbulent early years of the seventeenth century. Theatre is widely interpreted. The authors discuss censorship, the social implications of pageantry, Reformation ideals, popular theatre and the politics of the masque throughout the period. An early chapter discusses political theatre in the light of work by revisionist and post-revisionist historians. The drama of Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, Massinger, Chapman, Heywood and Rowley is given detailed attention, while Shakespeare's plays are considered in the introductory chapter.
Table of Contents
- 1. Theatre and government under the early Stuarts J. R. Mulryne
- 2. Early Stuart politics Simon Adams
- 3. Ben Jonson and the Master of the Revels Richard Dutton
- 4. The politics of the Jacobean masque Graham Parry
- 5. Reform or reverence? The politics of the Caroline masque Martin Butler
- 6. The spectacle of the realm: civic consciousness, rhetoric and ritual in early modern London James Knowles
- 7. The Reformation plays on the public stage Julia Gasper
- 8. Politics and dramatic form in early modern tragedy Kathleen McLuskie
- 9. Drama and opinion in the 1620s: Middleton and Massinger Margot Heinemann
- Index.
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