Ravishment of Reason : Governance and the Heroic Idioms of the Late Stuart Stage, 1660-1690 / Brandon Chua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chua, Brandon, 1981- author.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700.

English drama.

Theater--England--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; London, England : Bucknell University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Ravishment of Reason</span><span> presents a new contextual framework for the study of Restoration drama, demonstrating the important cultural work performed by the restored theaters in offering versions of political theory that mediated between older notions of thaumaturgic authority and proto-modern forms of government premised upon autonomy and contract. </span></span>

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Ch01. "HEROICALL PICTURES"; Ch02. "NEW RIGHTS WE GRANT NOT, BUT THE OLD DECLARE"; Ch03. "'TIS ALL BUT CEREMONY WHICH IS PAST"; Ch04. SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY LESSON; Ch05. "CAJOLING THE PEOPLE WITH HIS KNOWN INDUSTRY"; Ch06. THE POLITICS OF COWARDICE; Ch07. "HALF LOATH AND HALF CONSENTING"; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-583-5