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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 28, 2015).

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Staging the revolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- A note on dating and on spelling -- Introduction Of 1647, theatre closure and reinvention -- 1 The paper stage -- 2 Fairs, ghosts, tyranny and usurpation: debating the body politic on the paper stage -- 3 Reinventing the masque: Shirley's and Davenant's protectorate entertainments -- 4 Heroic drama on the commonwealth and Restoration stage -- 5 Ideas of panegyric in early Restoration comedy -- Epilogue Of 1688 and reinventing the past -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary

Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and volume of theatrical output during the Commonwealth and early Restoration, both in terms of live performances and performances on the paper stage. It argues that the often-cited notion that 1642 marked an end to theatrical production in England until the playhouses were reopened in 1660 is a product of post-Restoration re-writing of the English civil wars and the representations of royalists and parliamentarians that emerged in the 1640s and 1650s. These retellings of recent events in dramatic form mean that drama is central to civil war discourse. Staging the Revolution examines the ways in which drama was used to rewrite the civil war and commonwealth period and demonstrates that, far from marking a clear cultural demarcation from the theatrical output of the early seventeenth century, the Restoration is constantly reflecting back on the previous thirty years.

Language

In English.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.

Théâtre anglais -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.

PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.

English drama. (OCoLC)fst00910737

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635

Added Author

Manchester University Press, publisher.

Other Form:

Print version: Willie, Rachel. Staging the revolution : Drama, reinvention and history, 1647-72. Oxford : Manchester University Press, ©2015 9780719087639

ISBN

9781784996765 (electronic bk.)

1784996769 (electronic bk.)

9781784996147 (ePUB eBook)

0719087635 (hardback)

9780719087639

1526139561

9781526139566

1526104059

9781526104052

1784996149 (EPUB)

9780719087639

9781784996147 (EPUB)

9781526139566 (paperback)

Standard No.

10.7765/9781784996765 doi