Rebecca Bailey

Staging the Old Faith

Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625-1642

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Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged.Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria's ground-breaking performances which showcased to an elite audience her role as defender of English Catholics, against an exploration of how this community responded to such a startling vision, in particular through the politically charged texts of James Shirley and William Davenant.This engagement on the stage with the anxieties and hopes of the English Catholic community (properly contextualised within the wider… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5261-3433-2
EAN: 9781526134332
Produktnummer: 26631595
Verlag: Manchester University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H15.5 cm x B23.3 cm x D2.2 cm 454 g
Abbildungen: 24 black & white illustrations
Gewicht: 454

Über den Autor

Rebecca Bailey is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University . Prior to this, she was employed by the BBC as a Broadcast Media Researcher