Shakespeare and the royal actor : performing monarchy, 1760-1952
Sally Barnden
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xii, 252 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at various times in modern history in order to assert the continuity, legitimacy, and national identity of the royal line. The book provides an account of the relationship between the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family through the lens of a broadly conceived theatre history. It suggests that these two hegemonic institutions have had a mutually sustaining relationship for over three centuries, across a period of modern history from the accession of George III in 1760 to that of Elizabeth II in 1952. Identifications with Shakespearean figures have been strategically deployed to assert the Englishness of a dynasty with strong familial links to Germany, and to cultivate a sense of continuity from the more autocratic Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart monarchs informing Shakespeare's drama to the increasingly ceremonial monarchs of the modern period. The book is driven by new archival research, particularly in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives. As such its argument and case studies are shaped by the archival practices espoused by the monarchy's own narrative of itself. It reads these archives critically, asking how different forms of royal and Shakespearean performance are remembered in the material holdings of royal institutions"--
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| Emner | Shakespeare, William , 1564-1616
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| ISBN | 9780198894971
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