Theatre and empire : Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and I / Tristan Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Tristan.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

History.

Historiography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--James I, 1603-1625--Historiography.

Theater--England--London--History--17th century.

Theater.

England--London.

Political plays, English--History and criticism.

Political plays, English.

Great Britain--In literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 211 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Contents:

Introduction: James VI and I and the re-invention of Great Britain 1

1 A Jacobean empire 9

2 1603-10: 'Britaine is now, Britaine was of yore' 52

3 1611-13: 'The true Panthaeon of Great Britaine' 87

4 1614-25: Brute, force and ignorance? 145

Afterword: "Neuer a trve Britaine amongst you?' 185.

Notes:

Expanded ed. of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Cambridge).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0719057485

OCLC:

43333472