Shakespeare`s London on 5 Groats a Day

Автор: Wills Garry
Название: Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare`s Time
ISBN: 0300212712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300212716
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power

Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth.

Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianity's rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeth's reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule.

Название: Shakespeare`s Love Sonnets
ISBN: 0811879089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780811879088
Издательство: Abrams
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Описание: Shakespeare`s sonnets are revered the world over for perfectly capturing the torments and joys of love, unrequited or otherwise, in just fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. This title includes twenty-nine of the bard`s most romantic sonnets, illustrated by Caitlin Keegan.