The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, paying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition.
The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, paying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition.
Martin Wiggins is Senior Lecturer and Fellow, and Tutor for Research at The Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. From 1987-1990 he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Keble College. He has also taught at the University of Reading, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London, and The Roehampton Institute. His research interests cover the full corpus of dramatic works written in the British Isles between the English Reformation and the English Revolution, including both commercial and literary plays, masques and entertainments, and drama in Latin, Greek, Cornish, and Welsh. In 2006, he won the Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for distinguished work on Christopher Marlowe. He also writes regularly for the Globe's magazine, Around the Globe, on issues in dramatic history.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1535: A Midsummer Night's Apocalypse * 1559: The Taming of the Wolves * 1603: Sycophancy and Old Clothes * 1626: London's Labours Lost * 1642: Closedown * Appendix 1: Sir Thomas Cawarden's Masques for Queen Elizabeth I * Appendix 2: William Beeston and Political Theatre During the Short Parliament * Documents: * 1: Expenditure by the London Skinners' Company on the Lord Mayor's Midsummer Pageants, 1535 * 2: Costumes for the Court Revels on 6 January 1559 * 3: The Beautiful Hill: Thomas Middleton's verses for the Lord Mayor's pageant of 1626, The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity * 4: Sir Thomas Salusbury's Untitled Comedy of a Citizen and his Wife * Glossary * Map of London * Index
* Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * Introduction * 1535: A Midsummer Night's Apocalypse * 1559: The Taming of the Wolves * 1603: Sycophancy and Old Clothes * 1626: London's Labours Lost * 1642: Closedown * Appendix 1: Sir Thomas Cawarden's Masques for Queen Elizabeth I * Appendix 2: William Beeston and Political Theatre During the Short Parliament * Documents: * 1: Expenditure by the London Skinners' Company on the Lord Mayor's Midsummer Pageants, 1535 * 2: Costumes for the Court Revels on 6 January 1559 * 3: The Beautiful Hill: Thomas Middleton's verses for the Lord Mayor's pageant of 1626, The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity * 4: Sir Thomas Salusbury's Untitled Comedy of a Citizen and his Wife * Glossary * Map of London * Index
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