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Author Kernan, Alvin B.

Title Shakespeare, the king's playwright : theater in the Stuart court, 1603-1613 / Alvin Kernan.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  822.33 DK459s 1995    ---  Lib Use Only
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.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with literary patrons.
James I, King of England, 1566-1625 -- Relations with courts and courtiers.
James I, King of England, 1566-1625 -- Relations with dramatists.
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century.
Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625.
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Literary patrons -- Great Britain.
Stuart, House of.
ISBN 0300061811 (alk. paper)

 
    
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