Theatre and Government Under the Early StuartsJ. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring 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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Contents
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 |
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