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Author Walker, Greg, 1959-

Title The politics of performance in early Renaissance drama / Greg Walker
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages)
Contents Playing by the book : early Tudor drama and the printed text -- Household drama and the art of good counsel -- John Heywood and the politics of contentment -- Acting government : Sir David Lindsay's Ane satyre of the thrie estaitis -- Dramatic justice at the Marian court : Nicholas Udall's Respublica -- Strategies of courtship : the marital politics of Gorboduc
Summary Greg Walker provides a new account of the relationship between politics and drama in the turbulent period from the accession of Henry VIII to the reign of Elizabeth I. Building upon ideas first developed in Plays of Persuasion (1991), he focuses on political drama in both England and Scotland, exploring the complex relationships between politics, court culture and dramatic composition, performance and publication
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lindsay, David, active 1490-1555. Pleasant satyre of the thrie estaitis.
Heywood, John, 1497?-1580? -- Political and social views
Udall, Nicholas, 1505-1556. Respublica
Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584. Gorboduc.
SUBJECT Heywood, John, 1497?-1580? fast
Gorboduc (Norton, Thomas) fast
Pleasant satyre of the thrie estaitis (Lindsay, David) fast
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
Political plays, English -- History and criticism
Renaissance -- Scotland
Renaissance -- England
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Political and social views
Political plays, English
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Renaissance
Theater -- Political aspects
Politiek.
Hofcultuur.
Toneelvoorstellingen.
Engels.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056883
Subject England
Great Britain
Scotland
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511005113
9780511005114
9780511583155
051158315X
0521029910
9780521029919