| Description |
xiii, 264 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The king's threshold -- pt. 1. Shakespeare's England: A superfluous sort of men: the rise and fall of the professional theatre -- Astraea and Chrisoganus: The development of the charismatic image of the monarch ; The queen and the drama ; John Lyly ; Kingship in Marlowe's plays -- Nation and empire: The historical drama as a national literature ; 'Henry V' ; 'Cymbeline' ; Ben Jonson ; 'Eastward ho!' ; 'The tempest' -- The hidden king: Shakespeare's history plays -- Ben Jonson: Introductory ; Jonson's theory of the relationship between prince and poet ; The comical satires, 1599-1601 ; The court poet -- The royal pretenders: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Massinger's Believe as you list -- pt. 2. Yeats's Ireland: Our Irish theatre: Cultural nationalism and the European theatre ; The founding of an Irish theatre ; Yeats and Shakespeare -- A play-house in the waste: George Moore and the irish theatre -- Nothing is concluded: Sean O'Casey, Denis Johnston, and Brendan Behan ; Retrospect. |
| Subject |
English drama -- History and criticism.
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Irish drama -- History and criticism.
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Ireland -- In literature.
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| ISBN |
0521224632 |
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