Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317148231
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Book Synopsis Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633 by : Lisa Hopkins
Download or read book Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633 written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time - by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others - reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.