Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Lake Peter
Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Lake Peter Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. It…
Specifikacia Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Lake Peter
Theatre and Empire: Great Britain on the London Stages Under James VI and I Lake Peter
Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. 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. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place.
Specifically Jacobean interdisciplinary studies are few compared with Elizabethan and Caroline works, but the book attempts to redress the balance by offering a fresh The book argues that between 1603 and 1625 a group of playwrights celebrated a new national consciousness in works as diverse as Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent, Rowley's The Birth of Merlin and Shakespeare's Cymbeline.