Early Modern Drama and the Theatre of War : Militarism, Conflict and Disruption in the Plays of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Bronwen.

Contributor:

Hinds, Hilary.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This volume explores the disruptive effects of war and social unrest in early modern drama, offering new examinations of militarism, the soldier-figure and early modern theories of war in Shakespearean tragedy, history and comedy.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Bronwen Price, Hilary Hinds

I War and social unrest

1 Images of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a history of the present / Simon Barker

2 Revellers of fate / Rebecca A. Bailey

3 Satire, mock militarism and anti-provincial prejudice in The Death of the Lord of Kyme / Christopher Marlow

II Militarism, masculinity and gender

4 Militarism in Shakespeares Henry VI / Franziska Quabeck

5 Coriolanus, fort-da and the subject-as-object of war / Heather Hirschfeld

6 Shakespeare and the discourse of revenge in Hamlet and Othello / John Drakakis

III Shakespeare and twentieth-century militarism

7 Shakespeare and the construction of an ideal soldier during the First World War / Monika Smialkowska

8 Wartime Hamlet / Irena R. Makaryk

9 Illyrian knights / Simon Barker

References

Appendix

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Price, Bronwen Early Modern Drama and the Theatre of War

ISBN:

9781526184351

9781526184337

OCLC:

1547903100