Historiography and ideology in Stuart drama /

This study explores the Stuart history play, a genre often viewed as an inferior or degenerate version of the exemplary Elizabethan dramatic form. Writing in the shadow of Marlowe and Shakespeare, Stuart playwrights have traditionally been evaluated through the aesthetic assumptions and political co...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kamps, Ivo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
1600-1714
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Historical drama, English > History and criticism.
Political plays, English > History and criticism.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Politique et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Théâtre historique anglais > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre politique anglais > Histoire et critique.
Historiographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama
Historical drama, English
Historiography
Literature and history
Political plays, English
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714.
Great Britain > Historiography.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1603-1714.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Renaissance historiography
  • 2. Historiography and Tudor historical drama: the example of Bale's King Johan
  • 3. Thomas Heywood and the Princess Elizabeth: disrupting diachronic history
  • 4. Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the question of history
  • 5. "No meete matters to be wrytten or treated vpon": The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
  • 6. Perkin Warbeck and the failure of historiography.

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