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Staging the Revolution : Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-72.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784996765
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Staging the RevolutionOnline resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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