Drama And The Succession To The Crown 1561 1633

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317148234

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Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633 by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time - by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others - reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317148241

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Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633 by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time - by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others - reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.

Author : Marissa Nicosia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198872672

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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play by Marissa Nicosia Pdf

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays—plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars—in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 1&2 Henry IV, Richard III, Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's All is True, Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, John Ford's Perkin Warbeck, and the anonymous play pamphlets The Leveller's Levelled, 1 & 2 Craftie Cromwell, Charles I, and Cromwell's Conspiracy, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.

Author : David V. Urban
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039281947

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Religions in Shakespeare's Writings by David V. Urban Pdf

Offering a wide range of scholarly perspectives, Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings explores Shakespeare’s depictions, throughout his canon, of various religions and matters related to them. This collection’s fifteen essays explore matters pertaining to Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Christianity, the Albigensian heresy of the high middle ages, Islam, Judaism, Roman religion, different manifestations of religious paganism, and even the “religion of Shakespeare” practiced by Shakespeare’s nineteenth-century admirers. These essays analyze how Shakespeare depicts both tensions between religions and the syntheses of different religious expressions on topics as diverse as Shakespeare’s varied portrayals of the afterlife, religious experience in Measure for Measure, and Black natural law and The Tempest. This collection also explores the political ramifications of religion within Shakespeare’s works, as well as Shakespeare’s multifaceted uses of the Bible. Additionally, while this collection does not present a Shakespeare whose particular religious beliefs can definitely be known or are displayed uniformly throughout his canon, various essays consider to what extent Shakespeare’s individual works demonstrate a Christian foundation. Contributors include John D. Cox, Cyndia Susan Clegg, Grace Tiffany, Matthew J. Smith, Bethany C. Besteman, Sarah Skwire, Feisal Mohamed, Benedict J. Whalen, Benjamin Lockerd, Bryan Adams Hampton, Debra Johanyak, John E. Curran, Emily E. Stelzer, David V. Urban, and Julia Reinhard Lupton.

Author : Allison K. Deutermann,Matthew Hunter,Musa Gurnis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030523329

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Publicity and the Early Modern Stage by Allison K. Deutermann,Matthew Hunter,Musa Gurnis Pdf

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated with playing—not just actors and authors, but playgoers, characters, and the extraordinary local figures adjunct to playhouse productions—introduced new ways of thinking about the function and meaning of fame in the period; about the networks of communication through which it spread; and about theatrical publics. Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.

Author : Helen Vella Bonavita
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317118930

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Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England by Helen Vella Bonavita Pdf

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more than being simply a narrative or character-driven issue, is a vital component in the evolving construction and representation of British national identity in prose and drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Through close reading of a range of plays and prose texts, the book offers readers new insight into the semiotics of bastardy and concepts of national identity in early modern England, and reflects on contemporary issues of citizenship and identity. The author examines play texts of the period including Bale's King Johan, Peele's The Troublesome Reign of John, and Shakespeare's King John, Richard II, and King Lear in the context of a selection of legal, religious, and polemical texts. In so doing, she illuminates the extent to which the figure of the bastard and, more generally the trope of illegitimacy, existed as a distinct discourse within the wider discursive framework of family and nation.

Author : Ivan Lupić
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812296433

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Subjects of Advice by Ivan Lupić Pdf

In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupić uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While counsel was an important form of practical knowledge, with concrete political consequences, it was also an ingrained cultural habit, a feature of obligatory mental, moral, and political hygiene. To be a Renaissance subject, Lupić claims, one had to reckon with the advice of others. Lupić examines this reckoning in a variety of sixteenth-century dramatic contexts. The result is an original account of the foundational role that counsel played in the development of Renaissance drama. Lupić begins by considering the figure of Thomas More, whose influential argument about counsel as a form of performance in Utopia set the agenda for the entire century. Resisting linear narratives and recovering, instead, the simultaneity of radically different kinds of dramatic experience, he shows the vitality of later dramatic engagements with More's legacy through an analysis of the moral interlude staged within Sir Thomas More, a play possibly coauthored by Shakespeare. More also helps explain the complex use of counsel in Senecan drama, from the neo-Latin plays of George Buchanan, discussed in connection with Buchanan's political writings, to the historical tragedies of the mid-sixteenth century. If tyranny and exemplarity are the keywords for early Elizabethan drama of counsel, for the plays of Christopher Marlowe it is friendship. Lupić considers Marlowe's interest in friendship and counsel, most notably in Edward II, alongside earlier dramatic treatments, thus exposing the pervasive fantasy of the ideal counselor as another self. Subjects of Advice concludes by placing King Lear in relation to its dramatic sources to demonstrate Shakespeare's deliberate dispersal of counsel throughout his play. Counsel's customary link to plain and fearless speech becomes in Shakespeare's hands a powerful instrument of poetic and dramatic expression.

Author : Joseph Hone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192543813

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Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne by Joseph Hone Pdf

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about Anne's right to the throne were crucial to the construction of nascent party political identities. Literary texts were the principal vehicle through which contemporaries debated the new queen's legitimacy. This book sheds fresh light on canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Joseph Addison by setting their writing alongside the work of lesser known but nonetheless important figures such as John Tutchin, William Pittis, Nahum Tate, John Dennis, Henry Sacheverell, Charles Leslie, and other anonymous and pseudonymous authors. Through close historical analysis, it shows how this new generation of poets, preachers, and pamphleteers transformed older models of succession writing by Milton, Dryden, and others, and imbued conventional genres such as panegyric and satire with their own distinctive poetics. By immersing the major authors in their milieu, and reconstructing the political and material contexts in which those authors wrote, Literature and Party Politics demonstrates the vitality of debates about royal succession in early eighteenth-century culture.

Author : Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107099777

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The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage by Michelle M. Dowd Pdf

The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.

Author : Cora Dietl,Lofton L Durham ,Jody Enders ,Garrett PJ Epp ,Christina M Fitzgerald ,Elina Gertsman ,Anne G Graham ,Lisa Hopkins ,Pamela M King ,David Klausner ,Jelle Koopmans ,Katell Lavéant ,Ben Parsons ,Carol Symes
Publisher : First Circle Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780991976010

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ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama, vol 51 by Cora Dietl,Lofton L Durham ,Jody Enders ,Garrett PJ Epp ,Christina M Fitzgerald ,Elina Gertsman ,Anne G Graham ,Lisa Hopkins ,Pamela M King ,David Klausner ,Jelle Koopmans ,Katell Lavéant ,Ben Parsons ,Carol Symes Pdf

ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at the University of Western Ontario. Manuscripts are submitted to the Editor, Mario Longtin, via email at [email protected]. For further details, please visit the ROMARD website at www.romard.org. Special Issue: Showcasing Opportunities Co-Edited by Jill Stevenson and Mario Longtin This volume consists of fourteen short essays, all tackling different aspects of drama observed through a variety of disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and/or methodologies. We asked contributors to begin their pieces by introducing a new critical approach, a new methodology, a specific problem in the field, or an operative link between disciplines that fosters productive connections. In some cases, this framing concept introduces a new concept, methodology, or theoretical approach to the field of early drama studies. In other instances, authors invite readers to reconsider an existing topic or theme from a new perspective. We further asked contributors to select one specific example from early drama and to analyze it critically, but briefly, in order to illustrate their framing concept. We encouraged authors to be bold and, in some cases, to leave questions unresolved. Consequently, this special issue of ROMARD aims to advance the study of early drama by capturing research and ideas in the making.

Author : John E. Curran,, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611495058

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Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama by John E. Curran,, Jr. Pdf

This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.

Author : S. P. Cerasano,Mary Bly,Heather Anne Hirschfeld
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838644683

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England by S. P. Cerasano,Mary Bly,Heather Anne Hirschfeld Pdf

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eleven new articles and reviews of twelve books.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317066583

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Renaissance Drama on the Edge by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118501269

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A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare by Dympna Callaghan Pdf

The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521573443

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The Shakespearean Forest by Anonim Pdf