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Ravishment of reason : governance and the heroic idioms of the late Stuart Stage, 1660-1690 /

<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Ravishment of Reason presents a new contextual framework for the study of Restoration drama, demonstrating the important cultural work performed by the restored theaters in offering versions of political theory that mediated between older...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chua, Brandon, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2014]
Colección:Transits (Bucknell University)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Heroicall pictures: government and the restoration heroic play
  • New rights we grant not, but the old declare: history, friendship, and consent in Roger Boyle's Henry V
  • Tis all but ceremony which is past: conversion and heroic passions in John Dryden's The conquest of Granada, parts one and two (1670-1672)
  • Shakespeare's history lesson: John Crowne's misery of civil war
  • Cajoling the people with his known industry: the passions and spectacular politics in Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus
  • The politics of cowardice: fear, interest, and security in Aphra Behn's The widdow ranter
  • Half loath and half consenting: interpretive relativism and incest in John Dryden's Don Sebastian.