Format:
1 Online-Ressource (683 p)
ISBN:
9780300222715
Content:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction and acknowledgements -- PART I Contexts and structures -- Back to the future: Catholics and protestants learn the lessons of history -- Putting the (high) politics back into 'power' -- Elizabethan political history, now -- The arts of history -- Putting history on the stage -- History and the 'now' of performance -- Getting the audience to do the work -- Plays and pamphlets, pamphlets and plays -- PART II Past into present and future: 2 and 3 Henry VI and the politics of lost legitimacy
Content:
CHAPTER 1 Losing legitimacy: monarchical weakness andthe descent into disorder -- The politics of faction anatomised -- The 'good duke' (of Gloucester) -- Good counsellor/evil counsellor -- True tragedy: the fall of Gloucester -- Monarchical rule as the enabling condition of good counsel -- CHAPTER 2 Disorder dissected (i): the inversion of the gender order -- Disorderly wives and witches -- Women on top: the resistible rise of Queen Margaret -- The 'Amazonian trull' -- Not clerical but lay: the cross-dressing Henry VI -- Beyond evil counsel: the Christian prince as oxymoron
Content:
CHAPTER 3 Disorder dissected (ii): the inversion of the social order -- 'We are in order when we are most out of order' -- Puritan popularity personified -- A mirror for (dysfunctional) magistrates? -- CHAPTER 4 Hereditary 'right' and political legitimacy anatomised -- The right to rule unravelled -- A monarchical republic (not) -- When honour becomes revenge -- From Lancaster to Tudor -- PART III Happy endings and alternative outcomes: 1 Henry VI and Richard III -- CHAPTER 5 How not to go there: 1 Henry VI as prequel and alternative ending -- Faction politics -- Succession politics
Content:
The politics of virtue -- Honour and its enemies: women on top - again -- Anti-popery -- Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war -- CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means -- The making of a Machiavel -- Monstrous bodies and providential signs -- Signs and prophecies -- The audience as 'high all- seer' -- Ambiguities of 'evil counsel' -- From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy -- Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future -- CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared
Content:
PART IV How (not) to depose a tyrant: King John and Richard II -- CHAPTER 8 The Elizabethan resonances of the reign of King John -- Catholic and protestant appropriations of King John -- The Holinshed account -- CHAPTER 9 The first time as polemic, the second time as play: Shakespeare's King John and The troublesome reign -- Legitimacy problematised -- The bastard -- Commodity -- Popery in The troublesome reign -- Popery and the descent into tyranny in King John -- The apotheosis of the bastard -- England and providence -- CHAPTER 10 Richard II, or the rights and wrongs of resistance
Content:
Tyranny anatomised
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300225662
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300222715
Additional Edition:
Print version Lake, Peter How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage : Power and Succession in the History Plays Cumberland : Yale University Press,c2016 ISBN 9780300222715
Language:
English
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