Ralf Hertel

Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play

Performing National Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Applying current political theory on nationhood and methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays in the context of non-fictional texts - historiographies, chorographies and political treatises - and cultural artefacts such as maps or portraits to highlight the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late 16th-century culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9781472420497
• ISBN-10: 1472420497
• Artikelnr.: 41249919

Autorenporträt

Ralf Hertel is Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Performing National Identity on the Early Modern Stage
Part I Territory
Chapter 1 Plotting England: The Transformation of Territory into Homeland
Chapter 2 Mapping the Globe: The Cartographic Gaze and Henry IV Part 1
Part II History
Chapter 3 Making History: Staging the National Past
Chapter 4 Nationalizing History? The Anglica Historia, Richard III and the Appropriation of the English Past
Part III Religion
Chapter 5 Performing Religion: Belief and National Identity
Chapter 6 The New Faith of the Nation: Religion in King John
Part IV Class
Chapter 7 How Common Is the Commonwealth? Class and National Identity
Chapter 8 'Infinite numbers': Nation and Class in Henry VI Part 2
partV Gender
Chapter 9 Women on Top: Gender and National Identity
Chapter 10 The Private Is Political: Gender and Nation in Edward II
Conclusion: Early Modern Englishness and the Transformative Power of the Performative