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Staging Britain's Past: Pre-Roman Britain in Early Modern Drama: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama

Autor Kim Gilchrist Professor Douglas Bruster, Professor Lisa Hopkins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 apr 2021
Staging Britain's Pastis the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville'sGorboduc, Shakespeare'sKing LearandCymbeline,as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as Elizabeth I's 1578 entry to Norwich. Gilchrist argues for the power of performed history to shape early modern conceptions of the past, ancestry, and national destiny, and demonstrates how the erosion of the Brutan histories marks a transformation in English self-understanding and identity.When published in 1608, Shakespeare'sKing Learclaimed to be a "True Chronicle History". Lear was said to have ruled Britain centuries before the Romans, a descendant of the mighty Trojan Brute who had conquered Britain and slaughtered its barbaric giants. But this was fake history. Shakespeare's contemporaries were discovering that Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention. Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition's disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain's ancient rulers.Staging Britain's Pastreveals how the loss of England's Trojan origins is reflected in plays and performances fromGorboduc's powerful invocation of history toCymbeline's elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350163348
ISBN-10: 1350163341
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 3 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția The Arden Shakespeare
Seria Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The only book dedicated exclusively to Brutan drama as a corpus, it enables a fresh discussion of the interactions between historiography, historical consciousness and drama both in print and performance

Notă biografică

Kim Gilchristis Disglair Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, UK. Previously, he worked as a Teaching Fellow and completed a PhD in early modern drama at the University of Roehampton, UK, where he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship. He has taught on Shakespeare and early modern literature at Cardiff, Roehampton, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Central School of Speech and Drama.

Cuprins

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on textsIntroductionChapter One: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Etiological ErosionChapter Two: Staging Brutan Origins (1486-1600)Chapter Three: Reading Brutan Erosion (1604-1608)Chapter Four: The Diminution of Brutan Time (1610-1637)ConclusionsWorks CitedIndex