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Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521021049
New interpretations of Jacobean court culture by an international group of specialists.
Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317100232
Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.
Author : R. West
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403913692
Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage offers a timely alternative to theatre criticism's neglect of the intensely spatial character of theatrical performance. The book shows that early modern audiences were highly aware of the spatial aspects of the stage. West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern society - social mobility, wandering populations, rural enclosure, sea travel, localized empirical thought. Dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Webster are scrutinized for their treatment of these controversial themes.
Author : Albrecht Fuess,Jan-Peter Hartung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136917813
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of images of courtly life and architecture within the Muslim realm. The thematic methodology employed by the contributors underlines their interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to issues of politics and patronage from across the Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to India. Themes range from the religious legitimacy of Muslim rulers, terminologies for court culture in Oriental languages, Muslim concepts of space for royal representation, accessibility of rulers, the role of royal patronage for Muslim scholars and artists to the growing influence of European courts as role models from the eighteenth century onwards. Discussing specific terminologies for courts in Oriental languages and explaining them to the non specialist, chapters describe the specific features of Muslim courts and point towards future research areas. As such, it fills this important gap in the existing literature in the areas of Islamic history, religion, and Islam in particular.
Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874136385
It is widely accepted that English Renaissance drama owes its extraordinary richness and variety to the blending of elements originating from the medieval heritage and classical and Italian dramatic traditions. This grafting of the "Italian world" onto the English Renaissance goes far beyond the conventional research of the literary sources. The articles in this collection explore English Renaissance drama through new and challenging aspects of influence and through investigations into classical and Italian theater. The volume moves from early Elizabethan to late Jacobean drama. The area of research ranges from New Classical Comedy to commedia erudita, from the Renaissance theory of tragedy and tragicomedy to the birth of pastoral drama and beyond.
Author : W. B. Patterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521793858
This book shows King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England, in an unaccustomed light. Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, James is shown here as an astute and far-sighted statesman whose reign was focused on achieving a permanent union between his two kingdoms and a peaceful and stable community of nations throughout Europe.
Author : Alastair Bellany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521035430
This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.
Author : Michelle O'Callaghan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019818638X
The Jacobean Spenserian poets, William Browne, George Wither, and Christopher Brooke represented themselves as a distinctive oppositional community in the years 1612 to 1625. The author examines the group's response to contemporary political events.
Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826463142
Shakespeare's Politics is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. Shakespeare's Politics is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.
Author : Daniel Fischlin,Mark Fortier
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814328776
Sixteen leading scholars explore the richness of King James's work from a variety of perspectives, and in so doing seek to establish monarchic writing as an important genre in its own right. Best known for his landmark version of the Protestant Bible, James VI (1566-1625) of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I to the English throne, was truly a monarch of the word. From religious prose and verse to political treatises and social works to love poems and witty doggerel, James used writing and the print media to inspire his subjects, govern them, keep his enemies at bay, and even examine his own authority. Until now, the full span of James's work has received little critical attention by political and literary historians. In Royal Subjects, sixteen leading scholars explore the richness of his oeuvre from a variety of perspectives, and in so doing seek to establish monarchic writing as an important genre in its own right. Through its unprecedented look at monarchic writing, Royal Subjects not only enriches our understanding of the reign of James VI and I but also offers fruitful suggestions for approaches to other Renaissance texts and other periods.
Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134870424
This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.
Author : Bonnelyn Young Kunze,Dwight D. Brautigam
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 1878822055
Focusing on the political, intellectual, and cultural context of Englandin the early modern period (14th century to 18th century), these timelystudies explore political theory and the English Revolution, the revisionist debates over the court and the country, and the role of Laudian policies in the years prior to the Civil War. The volume also explores aristocratic rule in 17th century England as compared to that of the Polish Commonwealth, the resonance of political events in literary culture, Hobbes's theory of passions, the role of the gentle apprentice in London, and the problem of religious dissent in the 17th century. Contributors include: PAUL SEAVER, PAOLO PASQUALUCCI, WILLIAM HUNT, GORDON SCHOCKET, LINDA PECK, EDWARD HUNDERT, JOHN GUY, ANTONIO D'ANDREA, WILLIAM DRAY, JOSEPH LEVINE, PETER LAKE, DWIGHT BRAUTIGAM and BONNELYN YOUNG KUNZE.
Author : David L. Smith,Richard Strier,David Bevington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526159
A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.
Author : Richard Anthony McCabe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198716525
'Ungainefull Arte' examines how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange competed with those of the marketplaces, allowing for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme.
Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470998724
This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.
