Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England |
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Author:
| Wiggins, Martin |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-165040-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $297.00 |
Book Description:
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The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, paying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition.
The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, paying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition.