Theatre and Empire

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Books
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21.00
book_author_name: 
Tristan Marshall
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Manchester University Press
published_date: 
01/10/2020
isbn: 
9781526151728
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Books > History > Historical periods > Early modern history: 1500 to 1700
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Tristan Marshall|Paperback|Manchester University Press|01/10/2020
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9781526151728
Book Description: 
Theatre and empire explores the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a 'united kingdom' was created in the first place. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. The book argues that between 1603 and 1625 a group of playwrights celebrated a new national consciousness in works as diverse as Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent, Rowley’s The Birth of Merlin and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Specifically Jacobean interdisciplinary studies are few compared with Elizabethan and Caroline works, but the book attempts to redress the balance by offering a fresh appraisal of James Stuart’s reign.

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