Language and Poolitics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play

Informationen zum Autor DERMOT CAVANAGH is Lecturer in English at the University of Northumbria. Klappentext Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat presented by uncivil language. 'Unlicensed' speech informs the presentation of political debate in Tudor history plays and it is also the subject of their most daring political speculations. By analyzing plays by John Bale, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, and Robert Greene, as well as Shakespeare, this study also argues for a more inclusive approach to the genre. Zusammenfassung Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat presented by uncivil language. 'Unlicensed' speech informs the presentation of political debate in Tudor history plays and it is also the subject of their most daring political speculations. By analyzing plays by John Bale, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, and Robert Greene, as well as Shakespeare, this study also argues for a more inclusive approach to the genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction The Paradox of Sedition in John Bale's King Johan The Language of Counsel in Gorboduc Language, Temperance, and the Nation in Robert Greene's The Scottish History of James IV Misreading History: Rumour in King John The Language of Treason in Richard II Henry V and the Reformation of the Word Bibliography Index

Summary

Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat presented by uncivil language. 'Unlicensed' speech informs the presentation of political debate in Tudor history plays and it is also the subject of their most daring political speculations. By analyzing plays by John Bale, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, and Robert Greene, as well as Shakespeare, this study also argues for a more inclusive approach to the genre.

Product details

• Authors: D Cavanagh, D. Cavanagh, Dermot Cavanagh
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2003
• EAN: 9781403901323
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-0132-3
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Reform, Nation, Reformation, B, History, Politics, Language, Play, Knowledge, Subject, William James, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection