Theatre and government under the early Stuarts
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.
Print Book, English, 1993
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
9780521401593, 0521401593
26858283
Introduction : theatre and government under the early Stuarts / J.R. Mulryne
Early Stuart politics : revisionism and after / Simon Adams
Ben Jonson and the master of the Revels / Richard Dutton
The politics of the Jacobean masque / Graham Parry
Reform or reverence? The politics of the Caroline masque / Martin Butler
The Spectacle of the Realm : civic consciousness, rhetoric and ritual in early modern London / James Knowles
The Reformation plays on the public stage / Julia Gasper
Politics and dramatic form in early modern tragedy / Kathleen McLuskie
Drama and opinion in the 1620s : Middleton and Massinger / Margot Heinemann
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