Book Reviews: The Bowdler Shakespeare, the Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays, Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540–1640, Rhetoric, Theatre and the Arts of Design. Essays Presented to Roy Eriksen, Shakespearean Metaphysics, Representing France and the French, Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economies and the Early Modem English Stage, Œuvres complètes, the Whirligig of Time: Essays on Shakespeare and Czechoslovakia, the Shakespeare's Mine: Adapting Shakespeare in Anglophone Canada, Cruel Tears, a Certain William: Adapting Shakespeare in Francophone Canada, Hamlet, Prince of Québec

2010 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Stuart Sillars ◽  
Ton Hoenselaars ◽  
Rebecca Roberts ◽  
Muriel Cunin ◽  
Elizabeth Ford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
History Plays ◽  
The Arts ◽  
English Stage

Tyranny and Usurpation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doyeeta Majumder
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Plays ◽  
Elizabethan Drama ◽  
Political Drama ◽  
English Stage ◽  
The One ◽  
Tragic Drama ◽  
Law Making

This book examines the fraught relationship between the sixteenth-century formulations of the theories of sovereign violence, tyranny and usurpation and the manifestations of these ideas on the contemporary English stage. It will attempt to trace an evolution of the poetics of English and Scottish political drama through the early, middle, and late decades of the sixteenth-century in conjunction with developments in the political thought of the century, linking theatre and politics through the representations of the problematic figure of the usurper or, in Machiavellian terms, the ‘New Prince’. While the early Tudor morality plays are concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant, the later historical and tragic drama of the century foregrounds the figure of the illegitimate monarch who is a tyrant by default. On the one hand the sudden proliferation of usurpation plots in Elizabethan drama and the transition from the legitimate tyrant to the usurper tyrant is linked to the dramaturgical shift from the allegorical morality play tradition to later history plays and tragedies, and on the other it is reflective of a poetic turn in political thought which impelled political writers to conceive of the state and sovereignty as a product of human ‘poiesis’, independent of transcendental legitimization. The poetics of political drama and the emergence of the idea of ‘poiesis’ in the political context merge in the figure of the nuove principe: the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own ‘virtu’ and through an act of law-making violence.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Jungian Psychology ◽  
Transformative Teaching ◽  
The Arts

Transformative Teaching: Promoting Transformation through Literature,the Arts, and Jungian Psychology, by Darrell Dobson, SensePublishers,2008, ISBN 978908790417andEducation and Imagination: Post-Jungian Perspectives, edited by Raya A.Jones, Austin Clarkson, Sue Congram, and Nick Stratton, Routledge, 2008,ISBN 9780415432590

Devine Intervention: Collaboration and Conspiracy in the History of the Royal Court

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taryn Storey
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Stage ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
The Relationship

Taryn Storey believes that a series of letters recently discovered in the archive of the Arts Council of Great Britain (ACGB) makes it important that we reassess the genesis of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. Dating from November 1952, the correspondence between George Devine and William Emrys Williams, the Secretary General of the ACGB, offers an insight into a professional and personal relationship that was to have a profound influence on the emerging Arts Council policy for drama. Storey makes the case that in 1953 Devine not only shaped his Royal Court proposal to fit the priorities of the ACGB Drama Panel, but that Devine and senior members of the ACGB then collaborated to ensure that the proposal became a key part of Arts Council strategic planning. Furthermore, she puts forward the argument that the relationship between Devine and Williams was instrumental to new writing and innovation becoming central to the future rationale for state subsidy to the theatre. Taryn Storey is a doctoral student at the University of Reading. Her PhD thesis examines the relationship between practice and policy in the development of new writing in post-war British theatre, and forms part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Giving Voice to the Nation: The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Development of Theatre and Performance in Britain 1945–1995’, a collaboration between the University of Reading and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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