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001 2013050493
003 DLC
005 20140715081206.0
008 140225s2014 ctu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013050493
020 $a9780300197532 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR658.P65$bW55 2014
082 00 $a822/.309358$223
084 $aLIT015000$aHIS015000$aPHI019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWills, Garry,$d1934-$eauthor
245 10 $aMaking make-believe real :$bpolitics as theater in Shakespeare's time /$cGarry Wills.
264 1 $aNew Haven ;$aLondon :$bYale University Press,$c[2014]
300 $aix, 414 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth. Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianity's rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeth's reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-388) and index.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences) in literature.
650 0 $aPolitics in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Political.$2bisacsh