Book Details
Orange Code:93047
Paperback:269 pages
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1. Renaissance historiography2. Historiography and Tudor historical drama: the example of Bale's King Johan3. Thomas Heywood and the Princess Elizabeth: disrupting diachronic history4. Shakespeare,Fletcher,and the question of history
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This is the first study to explore the Stuart history play. Writing in the shadow of Shakespeare, Stuart playwrights have traditionally been evaluated through the aesthetic and political concerns of the sixteenth century. Ivo Kamps' study traces the development of Stuart drama in the radically different environment of the seventeenth century. A new consciousness of what history entailed, he claims, emerged during this period, materially affecting the structure of historical drama. Stuart drama used this new interest in historiography to undermine inherited forms of political and literary authority.
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