Staging Britain's Past
Pre-Roman Britain in Early Modern Drama
Staging Britain's Past is 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's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline, 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 En…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-16335-5
- EAN: 9781350163355
- Produktnummer: 35855930
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 3 bw illus
Über den Autor
Kim Gilchrist is a lecturer in the School of English at Cardiff University, UK, and an Honorary Research fellow at the University of Roehampton, UK. Prior ton joining Cardiff University, he taught on Shakespeare and early modern literature at Roehampton, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.
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