Text/events in Early Modern England - Poetics of History

List of contents

Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Contemporary Elizabethan Events and Accounts: 'Writing doth remain': accounts of the coronation entry of Elizabeth I; Inscribing performance: art and artlessness at Kenilworth, 1575. Part 2 Invocations of the Past: Chronicling the English past: child-kings, the succession question, and Richard II; The drama of history: 'counterfait' representations and 'lively patterns'; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Sandra Logan

Summary

Engaging with a range of events-historical moments, theatrical performances, public presentations, and courtly intrigues - and the texts that record them, this book explores representational practice as a component of Elizabethan political culture

Product details

• Authors: LOGAN, Sandra Logan, Logan Sandra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815397342
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9734-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature: history & criticism