Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama |
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| Author:
| Kamps, Ivo |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-10153-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $41.99 |
Book Description:
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This study explores the Stuart history play, a genre traditionally overshadowed by interest in Shakespeare and to show how the emergence of a new consciousness of what history entailed in the seventeenth century materially affected the structure of historical drama. Stuart playwrights, he claims, undermined inherited forms of political and literary authority through the use of new forms of historiographical narrative.
This study explores the Stuart history play, a genre traditionally overshadowed by interest in Shakespeare and to show how the emergence of a new consciousness of what history entailed in the seventeenth century materially affected the structure of historical drama. Stuart playwrights, he claims, undermined inherited forms of political and literary authority through the use of new forms of historiographical narrative.