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UNINA9910462951003321 |
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"The real thing" [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Tom Stoppard in celebration of his 75th birthday / / edited by William Baker and Amanda Smothers |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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BakerWilliam |
SmothersAmanda |
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English drama - 20th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE REAL THING: TOM STOPPARD INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN FIRTH; CHEKHOV'S STOPPARD; TOM STOPPARD: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNGMAN; STOPPARD'S ARCADIA; "THE ILLUSION OF PROPRIETORSHIP"; TOM STOPPARD, A.E. HOUSMAN, AND THE CLASSICS; STOPPARD'S SHAKESPEARE; INSECURITY, FRUSTRATION AND DISGUST IN TOM STOPPARD'S FICTION; THE INAUTHENTIC TRANSLATIONS IN THE INVENTION OF LOVE; LOST AND FOUND; WHO RULES THE EMPIRE?; CONFRONTATIONS WITH MORTALITY; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
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With a writing career spanning over half a century and encompassing media as diverse as conferences, radio, journalism, fiction, theatre, film, and television, Tom Stoppard is probably the most prolific and significant living British dramatist. The critical essays in this volume celebrating Stoppard's 75th birthday address many facets of Stoppard's work, both the well-known, such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, as well as the relatively critically |
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neglected, including his novel Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon and his short stories, "The Story," "Life, Times: Fragme |
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UNINA9910827477203321 |
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McCoy Richard C. <1946-> |
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Alterations of state : sacred kingship in the English Reformation / / Richard C. McCoy |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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1 online resource (xxiv, 218 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Kings and rulers - Religious aspects - Christianity |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Kings and rulers in literature |
Christianity and literature - Great Britain - History - 16th century |
Christianity and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 16th century |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Monarchy in literature |
Holy, The, in literature |
State, The, in literature |
Church and state in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- 1. Real Presence to Royal Presence -- 2. Sacred Space: John Skelton and Westminster's Royal Sepulcher -- 3. Rites of Memory: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Compromise -- 4. Idolizing Kings: John Milton and Stuart Rule -- 5. Sacramental to Sentimental: Andrew Marvell and the Restoration -- Notes -- Index |
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Traditional notions of sacred kingship became both more grandiose |
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and more problematic during England's turbulent sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reformation launched by Henry VIII and his claims for royal supremacy and divine right rule led to the suppression of the Mass, as the host and crucifix were overshadowed by royal iconography and pageantry. These changes began a religious controversy in England that would lead to civil war, regicide, restoration, and ultimately revolution. Richard McCoy shows that, amid these sometimes cataclysmic Alterations of State, writers like John Skelton, Shakespeare, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell grappled with the idea of kingship and its symbolic and substantive power. Their artistic representations of the crown reveal the passion and ambivalence with which the English viewed their royal leaders. While these writers differed on the fundamental questions of the day-Skelton was a staunch defender of the English monarchy and traditional religion, Milton was a radical opponent of both, and Shakespeare and Marvell were more equivocal-they shared an abiding fascination with the royal presence or, sometimes more tellingly, the royal absence. Ranging from regicides real and imagined-with the very real specter of the slain King Charles I haunting the country like a revenant of the king's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet-from the royal sepulcher at Westminster Abbey to Peter Paul Reubens's Apotheosis of King James at Whitehall, and from the Elizabethan compromise to the Glorious Revolution, McCoy plumbs the depths of English attitudes toward the king, the state, and the very idea of holiness. He reveals how older notions of sacred kingship expanded during the political and religious crises that transformed the English nation, and helps us understand why the conflicting emotions engendered by this expansion have proven so persistent. |
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