Staging the Revolution : Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-72.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
Intro -- Staging the revolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- A note on dating and on spelling -- Introduction Of 1647, theatre closure and reinvention -- 1 The paper stage -- 2 Fairs, ghosts, tyranny and usurpation: debating the body politic on the paper stage -- 3 Reinventing the masque: Shirley's and Davenant's protectorate entertainments -- 4 Heroic drama on the commonwealth and Restoration stage -- 5 Ideas of panegyric in early Restoration comedy -- Epilogue Of 1688 and reinventing the past -- Bibliography -- Index.
Seeks to reassess the dramatic output of the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration; a period that has often been marginalised by specialists of both Renaissance and Restoration drama.