Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts

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J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring
Cambridge University Press, Jul 8, 1993 - Drama - 271 pages
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.

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revisionism and after
29
Ben Jonson and the Master of the Revels
57
The politics of the Jacobean masque
87
Reform or reverence? The politics of the Caroline masque
118
civic consciousness rhetoric
157
The Reformation plays on the public stage
190
Politics and dramatic form in early modern tragedy
217
Middleton and Massinger
237
Index
266
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