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Princes to Act

Royal Audience and Royal Performance, 1578-1792

Princes to Act( )
Author: Wikander, Matthew H.
ISBN:978-0-8018-4428-7
Publication Date:Dec 1977
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $52.00
Book Description:

"[Wikander's] meticulous and imaginative study... subtly chronicles an evolving dynamic between ruler and ruled as mirrored in the circumstances of court performances."-- Theatre History Studies Princes to Act describes how theater and monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries existed in mutual dependency and mutual mistrust, leading to performances that both affirmed and challenged the social boundaries between monarch and actor, audience and performer. Wikander explores...
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Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
Literary Criticism / Drama
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.12 Inches
Book Weight:1.465 Pounds



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