Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England

Auteur: Wiggins, Martin (Senior Lecturer and Fellow, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, paying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition.
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The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, paying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition.
ISBN / EAN 9780199650590
Auteur Wiggins, Martin (Senior Lecturer and Fellow, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Editeur Oxford University Press