Drama and the succession to the crown, 1561-1633

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Drama and the succession to the crown, 1561-1633

Lisa Hopkins

Ashgate, c2011

  • : hbk
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Studies in performance and early modern drama

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"Studies in performance and early modern drama"--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Christopher Marlowe and the Succession to the English Crown
  • Chapter 2 Romans and Fairies
  • Chapter 3 Robin Hood and the King's Two Bodies
  • Chapter 4 Female Transmission, Female Taint
  • Chapter 5 Antonios and Stewards
  • Chapter 6 One King, Two Kingdoms?
  • Chapter 7 John Ford and the 1630s
  • Chapter 8 Conclusion

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