Drama and the succession to the crown, 1561-1633 / by Lisa Hopkins.

By:

Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in performance and early modern dramaPublication details: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 178 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781409406488
1409406482
1409406474
9781409406471
1317148231
9781317148234
1283047667
9781283047661
9786613047663
661304766X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Drama and the succession to the crown, 1561-1633.DDC classification:

822.3/093581 22

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PR658.P65 H67 2011eb

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Contents:

Christopher Marlowe and the succession to the English crown -- Romans and fairies -- Robin Hood and the king's two bodies -- Female transmission, female taint -- Antonios and stewards -- One king, two kingdoms? -- John Ford and the 1630s.

Subject: The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time – by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others – reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.

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The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time – by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others – reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.

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