Theatre and empire

Informationen zum Autor Tristan Marshall lectures on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cultural history at Shakespeare's Globe Klappentext This book looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: James VI and I and the reinvention of Great Britain1 A Jacobean empire2 1603-10: 'Britaine is now, Britaine was of yore'3 1611-13: 'The true Panthaeon of Great Britaine'4 1614-25: Brute, force and ignorance?Afterword: 'Neuer a trve Britaine amongst you?'Index

Klappentext

This book looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages.

Inhalt

Introduction: James VI and I and the reinvention of Great Britain 1 A Jacobean empire 2 1603-10: 'Britaine is now, Britaine was of yore' 3 1611-13: 'The true Panthaeon of Great Britaine' 4 1614-25: Brute, force and ignorance? Afterword: 'Neuer a trve Britaine amongst you?' Index