Tristan Marshall 
Theatre and empire [EPUB ebook] 
Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and I

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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.
The book argues that between 1603 and 1625 a group of playwrights celebrated a new national consciousness in works as diverse as Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent, Rowley’s The Birth of Merlin and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Specifically Jacobean interdisciplinary studies are few compared with Elizabethan and Caroline works, but the book attempts to redress the balance by offering a fresh appraisal of James Stuart’s reign. Looking at both established and little-known plays and playwrights, Theatre and empire rewrites our understanding of the political and cultural context of the Jacobean stage.

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Introduction: James VI and I and the reinvention of Great Britain
1 A Jacobean empire
2 1603-10: ‘Britaine is now, Britaine was of yore’
3 1611-13: ‘The true Panthaeon of Great Britaine’
4 1614-25: Brute, force and ignorance?
Afterword: ‘Neuer a trve Britaine amongst you?’
Index

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Tristan Marshall lectures on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cultural history at Shakespeare’s Globe

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 224 ● ISBN 9781526134745 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.7 MB ● Editorial Manchester University Press ● Ciudad Manchester ● País GB ● Publicado 2018 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7113480 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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