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Staging power in Tudor and Stuart English history plays : history, political thought, and the redefinition of sovereignty
Title
Staging power in Tudor and Stuart English history plays : history, political thought, and the redefinition of sovereignty / Kristin M.S. Bezio.
ISBN
9781472465115
1472465113
9781472465122
9781472465139
147246513X
9781472465139
1472465121
9781472465122
Publication
Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2015]
Physical Description
228 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction of parliaments and kings: the origins of monarchy and the sovereign-subject compact in the English Middle Ages (to 1400)
The white rose and the red: the wars of the roses and the rise of absolutism in England (1400-1558)
The queen and the stage: the rise of popular theater in Elizabethan England (1558-1580)
Drama and the queen: early English history plays and the problem of succession (1580-1592)
Succession and the queen: English history plays and the uncertain future of the English monarchy (1593-1600)
The queen's councilors: censorship, courtly silence, and the secrets of the succession (1600-1603)
The heir and the spare: the Stuarts and the decline of historical drama (1603-1660).
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