عنوان

Historiography and ideology in Stuart drama /

0521101530

0521561558

9780521101530

9780521561556

b528164

Historiography and ideology in Stuart drama /

[Book]

Ivo Kamps

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1996

xiv, 255 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-250) and index

1. Renaissance historiography -- 2. Historiography and Tudor historical drama: the example of Bale's King Johan -- 3. Thomas Heywood and the Princess Elizabeth: disrupting diachronic history -- 4. Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the question of history -- 5. "No meete matters to be wrytten or treated vpon": The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt -- 6. Perkin Warbeck and the failure of historiography

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Historiography and ideology in Stuart drama is the first sustained attempt to account for a neglected genre, and a sophisticated reading of the relationship between literature, history, and political power

This study explores the Stuart history play, a genre often viewed as an inferior or degenerate version of the exemplary Elizabethan dramatic form. Writing in the shadow of Marlowe and Shakespeare, Stuart playwrights have traditionally been evaluated through the aesthetic assumptions and political concerns of the sixteenth century. Ivo Kamps's study traces the development of Jacobean drama in the radically changed literary and political environment of the seventeenth century. He shows how historiographical developments in this period materially affected the structure of the history play. As audiences became increasingly skeptical of the comparatively simple teleological narratives of the Tudor era, a demand for new ways of staging history emerged. Kamps demonstrates how Stuart drama capitalized on this new awareness of historical narrative to undermine inherited forms of literary and political authority

English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism

Historical drama, English-- History and criticism

Historiography-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century

Literature and history-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century

Political plays, English-- History and criticism

Politics and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century

Great Britain, Historiography

Great Britain, Politics and government, 1603-1714

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