The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
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Greg Walker provides a new account of the relationship between politics and drama in the turbulent period from the accession of Henry VIII to the reign of Elizabeth I. Building on ideas first developed in Plays of Persuasion (1991), he focuses on political drama in both England and Scotland, exploring the complex relationships among politics, court culture and dramatic composition, performance and publication. This interdisciplinary analysis will find a market among Tudor historians as well as students of medieval and Renaissance drama.
- A detailed interdisciplinary analysis of the role of drama in the court politics of sixteenth-century England and Scotland
- A sustained examination of the creation, marketing and circulation of play texts as printed books in the early Renaissance period
- Of interest to Tudor historians as well as students of medieval and Renaissance drama
Reviews & endorsements
"Walker's analyses are convincing and historically detailed. He is clearly at his best when illustrating the historical contexts and allusions that the texts engage. He provides an amazing amount of detail." Peter C. Herman, Albion
"Recommended for well-read upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." Choice
"Walker is the most provocative theater historians writing today on the early Tudor period, and he continues to offer new ways of looking at old problems and to suggest new aveunes for understanding the drama and politics of the period." Modern Philology
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April 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511835650
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Playing by the book: early Tudor drama and the printed text
- 2. Household drama and the art of good counsel
- 3. John Heywood and the politics of contentment
- 4. Acting government: Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of The Thrie Estaitis
- 5. Dramatic justice at the Marian court: Nicholas Udall's Respublica
- 6. Strategies of courtship: the marital politics of Gorboduc
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Index.
