Description |
xxiii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : Shakespeare at the Stuart Court -- Art and theater in the service of the Leviathan state -- Blood revenge in Elsinore and in holyrood : Hamlet (Hampton Court, Christmas 1603) -- The king's prerogative and the law : Measure for measure (Whitehall, December 26, 1604) -- The politics of madness and demonism : Macbeth (Hampton Court, August 7, 1606) -- The true king : Lear (Whitehall, Christmas 1606) -- Sex and favor in the court : Antony and Cleopatra (Whitehall, Christmas 1607) -- The military and the court aristocracies : Coriolanus (Whitehall, Christmas 1608) -- The king and the poet : The tempest (Whitehall, Winter 1613) -- Shakespeare's sonnets and patronage art -- What the king saw, what the poet wrote -- Appendix A : Theatrical calendar of the King's Men at court, 1603-14 -- Appendix B : The Great Hall at Christ Church, Oxford, August 1605. |
Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with literary patrons.
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James I, King of England, 1566-1625 -- Relations with courts and courtiers.
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James I, King of England, 1566-1625 -- Relations with dramatists.
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century.
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Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625.
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Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Literary patrons -- Great Britain.
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Stuart, House of.
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ISBN |
0300061811 (alk. paper) |
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