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

• Autore: Willie Rachel
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 792.094209032
• Soggetto topico: Theater - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Literature; Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; Classic & pre-20th century plays
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714
• Soggetto non controllato: Charles I.; Charles II; Commonwealth; Drama; English Civil War; Interregnum; Oliver Cromwell; Playtext; Protectorate; Republic
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Staging the revolution
• ISBN: 1-5261-3956-1; 1-5261-0405-9; 1-78499-676-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822442903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II