Drama And Politics In The English Civil War
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Drama and Politics in the English Civil War
Author | : Susan Wiseman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1998-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521472210 |
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In 1642 an ordinance closed the theatres of England. Critics and historians have assumed that the edict was to be firm and inviolate. Susan Wiseman challenges this assumption and argues that the period 1640 to 1660 was not a gap in the production and performance of drama nor a blank space between 'Renaissance drama' and the 'Restoration stage'. Rather, throughout the period, writers focused instead on a range of dramas with political perspectives, from republican to royalist. This group included the short pamphlet dramas of the 1640s and the texts produced by the writers of the 1650s, such as William Davenant, Margaret Cavendish and James Shirley. In analysing the diverse forms of dramatic production of the 1640s and 1650s, Wiseman reveals the political and generic diversity produced by the changes in dramatic production, and offers insights into the theatre of the Civil War.
Literature and the English Civil War
Author | : Thomas Healy,Jonathan Sawday |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1990-05-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521370820 |
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This book charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context from 1640-1660. Essays in the volume focus on issues of ideology and genre; the politics of the masque; lyric and devotional poetry; women's writings; attitudes towards Ireland; colonialism; madness and division; and individual writers such as Hobbes, Marvell and Milton.
Literature Gender and Politics During the English Civil War
Author | : Diane Purkiss |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139445993 |
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In this innovative study, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention. Historians have tended to emphasise a model of human action in the Civil War based on the idea of the human self as rational animal. Purkiss reveals the irrational ideological forces governing the way seventeenth-century writers understood the state, the monarchy, the battlefield and the epic hero in relation to contested contemporary ideas of masculinity. She analyses the writings of Marvell, Waller, Herrick and the Caroline elegists, as well as in newsbooks and pamphlets, and pays particular attention to Milton's complex responses to the dilemmas of male identity. This study will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century literature as well as those working in intellectual history and the history of gender.
The English Civil Wars
Author | : Blair Worden |
Publsiher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2009-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780297857594 |
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A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars
Author | : Nicholas McDowell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199278008 |
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This book explores the things which united, rather than divided, poets during the English Civil Wars, focusing less on conflicts between 'Cavaliers' and 'Roundheads' than on the friendships and shared literary enthusiasms of men of various political allegiance. Includes new readings of the early verse of John Milton and Andrew Marvell.
Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts
Author | : J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993-07-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521401593 |
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This collection of commissioned essays by established scholars, responds to critical debate on political theatre of the turbulent early years of the seventeenth century. Theatre is widely interpreted. The authors discuss censorship, the social implications of pageantry, Reformation ideals, popular theatre and the politics of the masque throughout the period. An early chapter discusses political theatre in the light of work by revisionist and post-revisionist historians. The drama of Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, Massinger, Chapman, Heywood and Rowley is given detailed attention, while Shakespeare's plays are considered in the introductory chapter.
The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination
Author | : Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth |
Publsiher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780826261694 |
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The English Civil War and After 1642 1658
Author | : Robert Ashton |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 1970-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520017832 |
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All but one of the essays were originally delivered as lectures at Eton College. Includes bibliographies.