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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.

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.

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<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 notions of thaumaturgic authority and proto-modern forms of government premised upon autonomy and contract.

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