Author: JESSE FRANKLIN. BRADLEY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033646571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
JONSON ALLUSION-BOOK
Author: JESSE FRANKLIN. BRADLEY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033646571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033646571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales
Author: Philip Schwyzer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved the denigration and outright denial of Englishness. Philip Schwyzer argues that the ancient, insular, and imperial nation imagined in the works of writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser was not England, but Britain. Disclaiming their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, the English sought their origins in a nostalgic vision of British antiquity. Focusing on texts including The Faerie Queene, English and Welsh antiquarian works, The Mirror for Magistrates, Henry V and King Lear, Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the expanding scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study gives detailed attention to Welsh texts and traditions, arguing that Welsh sources crucially influenced the development of English literature and identity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved the denigration and outright denial of Englishness. Philip Schwyzer argues that the ancient, insular, and imperial nation imagined in the works of writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser was not England, but Britain. Disclaiming their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, the English sought their origins in a nostalgic vision of British antiquity. Focusing on texts including The Faerie Queene, English and Welsh antiquarian works, The Mirror for Magistrates, Henry V and King Lear, Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the expanding scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study gives detailed attention to Welsh texts and traditions, arguing that Welsh sources crucially influenced the development of English literature and identity.
The Workes of Benjamin Jonson
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Staging Britain's Past
Author: Kim Gilchrist
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350163368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline, as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as Elizabeth I's 1578 entry to Norwich. Gilchrist argues for the power of performed history to shape early modern conceptions of the past, ancestry, and national destiny, and demonstrates how the erosion of the Brutan histories marks a transformation in English self-understanding and identity. When published in 1608, Shakespeare's King Lear claimed to be a “True Chronicle History”. Lear was said to have ruled Britain centuries before the Romans, a descendant of the mighty Trojan Brute who had conquered Britain and slaughtered its barbaric giants. But this was fake history. Shakespeare's contemporaries were discovering that Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention. Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition's disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain's ancient rulers. Staging Britain's Past reveals how the loss of England's Trojan origins is reflected in plays and performances from Gorboduc's powerful invocation of history to Cymbeline's elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350163368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline, as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as Elizabeth I's 1578 entry to Norwich. Gilchrist argues for the power of performed history to shape early modern conceptions of the past, ancestry, and national destiny, and demonstrates how the erosion of the Brutan histories marks a transformation in English self-understanding and identity. When published in 1608, Shakespeare's King Lear claimed to be a “True Chronicle History”. Lear was said to have ruled Britain centuries before the Romans, a descendant of the mighty Trojan Brute who had conquered Britain and slaughtered its barbaric giants. But this was fake history. Shakespeare's contemporaries were discovering that Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention. Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition's disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain's ancient rulers. Staging Britain's Past reveals how the loss of England's Trojan origins is reflected in plays and performances from Gorboduc's powerful invocation of history to Cymbeline's elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.
The Works of John Marston
Author: John Marston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Catiline His Conspiracy
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Satiro-mastix ; Or, The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet
Author: Thomas Dekker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Bel-vedére, Or, The Garden of the Muses
Author: John Bodenham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Masque of Blacknesse. Masque of Beauty.
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849021135
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A modern edition of two of Ben Jonson's Masques.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849021135
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A modern edition of two of Ben Jonson's Masques.
Shakespearean Playhouses
Author: Joseph Quincy Adams
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 373407052X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Shakespearean Playhouses by Joseph Quincy Adams
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 373407052X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Shakespearean Playhouses by Joseph Quincy Adams