Staging Britain's Past
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-16334-8 (ISBN)
When published in 1608, Shakespeare’s King Lear claimed to be a “True Chronicle History”. Lear was said to have ruled Britain centuries before the Romans, a descendant of the mighty Trojan Brute who had conquered Britain and slaughtered its barbaric giants. But this was fake history. Shakespeare’s contemporaries were discovering that Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention.
Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition’s disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain’s ancient rulers. Staging Britain's Past reveals how the loss of England’s Trojan origins is reflected in plays and performances from Gorboduc’s powerful invocation of history to Cymbeline’s elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.
Kim Gilchrist is Disglair Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, UK. Previously, he worked as a Teaching Fellow and completed a PhD in early modern drama at the University of Roehampton, UK, where he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship. He has taught on Shakespeare and early modern literature at Cardiff, Roehampton, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Central School of Speech and Drama.
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on texts
Introduction
Chapter One: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Etiological Erosion
Chapter Two: Staging Brutan Origins (1486–1600)
Chapter Three: Reading Brutan Erosion (1604–1608)
Chapter Four: The Diminution of Brutan Time (1610–1637)
Conclusions
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama |
| Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Professor Lisa Hopkins, Professor Douglas Bruster |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-16334-1 / 1350163341 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-16334-8 / 9781350163348 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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