Text/Events in Early Modern England: Poetics of History

ISBN-13: 9780815397342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Sandra Logan

Opis

Engaging with a range of events-historical moments, theatrical performances, public presentations, and courtly intrigues - and the texts that record them, this book explores representational practice as a component of Elizabethan political culture

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Contemporary Elizabethan Events and Accounts: 'Writing doth remain': accounts of the coronation entry of Elizabeth I; Inscribing performance: art and artlessness at Kenilworth, 1575. Part 2 Invocations of the Past: Chronicling the English past: child-kings, the succession question, and Richard II; The drama of history: 'counterfait' representations and 'lively patterns'; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Sandra Logan