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Drama and the transfer of power in Renaissance England / Martin J. Wiggins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiggins, Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Theater--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; 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 Prosperity4. Sir Thomas Salusbury's Untitled Comedy of a Citizen and his Wife; Glossary; Map of London; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 13, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613807809
- 0-19-165040-4
- 1-282-13522-8
- OCLC:
- 922971318
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