Christopher Orchard

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain

The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649-1658

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Produktbeschreibung

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments from 1649-1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781032436678
• ISBN-10: 1032436670
• Artikelnr.: 67679570

Autorenporträt

Christopher Orchard is a professor in the English department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he specializes in Renaissance literature, literature of the 1640s and 1650s, and Shakespeare. He has published numerous articles on Milton, Katherine Philips, and writing of the 1650s.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The politics of printed drama in 1650s
Britain; Chapter 1: The ambivalent political messaging of Royalist drama,
1649-1650; Chapter 2: Poetics as political policy: the republic's early
response to Royalist drama, 1649-1651; Chapter 3: "A floating unbalanced
people": Drama and the instability of the republican state, 1651-1653;
Chapter 4: They "always speak things as they would have them": The failures
of aspirational royalist drama, 1651-1653; Chapter 5: Royalist drama, the
legitimacy of authority, and social and political unrest in the mid-1650s;
Chapter 6: Republics and ethics: The moral probity of protectoral
entertainments, 1653-1658; Conclusion: The hijacking of republican poetics;
Index