Author: Christopher Orchard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000895084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain. After the regicide of 1649, printed plays could be interpreted by royalist readers as texts of resistance to the republic and protectoral governments respectively. However, there were often discrepancies between the aspirational content of these plays and the realities facing a royalist party who had been defeated in the Civil Wars. Similarly, plays with a classically republican Roman setting failed to offer a successful model for the new republic. Consequently, writers who supported the new republic and, eventually, Cromwell’s protectoral government, proposed entertainments, based around the concept of the sublime, whose purpose was to create political amnesia in the audience, thereby nullifying any political dissatisfaction with a non-monarchical form of government. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of seventeenth-century literature, and of the political history of 1640s and 1650s Britain.
Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain
Author: Christopher Orchard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000895084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain. After the regicide of 1649, printed plays could be interpreted by royalist readers as texts of resistance to the republic and protectoral governments respectively. However, there were often discrepancies between the aspirational content of these plays and the realities facing a royalist party who had been defeated in the Civil Wars. Similarly, plays with a classically republican Roman setting failed to offer a successful model for the new republic. Consequently, writers who supported the new republic and, eventually, Cromwell’s protectoral government, proposed entertainments, based around the concept of the sublime, whose purpose was to create political amnesia in the audience, thereby nullifying any political dissatisfaction with a non-monarchical form of government. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of seventeenth-century literature, and of the political history of 1640s and 1650s Britain.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000895084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain. After the regicide of 1649, printed plays could be interpreted by royalist readers as texts of resistance to the republic and protectoral governments respectively. However, there were often discrepancies between the aspirational content of these plays and the realities facing a royalist party who had been defeated in the Civil Wars. Similarly, plays with a classically republican Roman setting failed to offer a successful model for the new republic. Consequently, writers who supported the new republic and, eventually, Cromwell’s protectoral government, proposed entertainments, based around the concept of the sublime, whose purpose was to create political amnesia in the audience, thereby nullifying any political dissatisfaction with a non-monarchical form of government. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of seventeenth-century literature, and of the political history of 1640s and 1650s Britain.
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms International
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Author: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
Author: Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker
Publisher:
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Category : Black Death
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black Death
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
Author: Eliza Frances Andrews
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton, 1908;.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton, 1908;.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James Sprunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
Author: John Hill Wheeler
Publisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description