| Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633 Contributor(s): Hopkins, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409406474 ISBN-13: 9781409406471 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 822.309 |
| LCCN: 2010052337 |
| Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.98 lbs) 188 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time - by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others - reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne. |