Theatre and Empire - Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I

Informationen zum Autor Tristan Marshall lectures on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cultural history at Shakespeare's Globe Klappentext This book looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: James VI and I and the reinvention of Great Britain1 A Jacobean empire2 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tristan Marshall, Marshall Tristan
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781526151728
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5172-8
• Seiten: 224
• Serien: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain; Politics, Culture and Society
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; European History, HISTORY / General, ART / European, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, Later 16th century c 1550 to c 1599