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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797602203321

Autore

Willie Rachel

Titolo

Staging the revolution : drama, reinvention and history, 1647-72 / / Rachel Willie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-5261-3956-1

1-5261-0405-9

1-78499-676-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

792.094209032

Soggetti

Theater - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Literature

Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama

Classic & pre-20th century plays

Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Staging the revolution ; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements ; List of abbreviations; A note on dating and on spelling; Introduction Of 1647, theatre closure and reinvention; 1 The paper stage; 2 Fairs, ghosts, tyranny and usurpation: debating the body politic on the paper stage; 3 Reinventing the masque:  Shirley's and Davenant's protectorate entertainments; 4 Heroic drama on the commonwealth and Restoration stage; 5 Ideas of panegyric in early Restoration comedy; Epilogue Of 1688 and reinventing the past; Bibliography ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work reassess the dramatic output of the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration; a period that has often been marginalised by specialists of both Renaissance and Restoration drama.