Drama and Politics in the English Civil War
Drama and Politics in the English Civil War

Author: Susan Wiseman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-04-09

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0521472210

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In 1642 an ordinance closed the theatres of England. Critics and historians have assumed that the edict was to be firm and inviolate. Susan Wiseman challenges this assumption and argues that the period 1640 to 1660 was not a gap in the production and performance of drama nor a blank space between 'Renaissance drama' and the 'Restoration stage'. Rather, throughout the period, writers focused instead on a range of dramas with political perspectives, from republican to royalist. This group included the short pamphlet dramas of the 1640s and the texts produced by the writers of the 1650s, such as William Davenant, Margaret Cavendish and James Shirley. In analysing the diverse forms of dramatic production of the 1640s and 1650s, Wiseman reveals the political and generic diversity produced by the changes in dramatic production, and offers insights into the theatre of the Civil War.

Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000
Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000

Author: Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-24

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 3030428826

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This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that there can be no teleological narration of anti-Catholicism – its manifestations were episodic, more or less rooted in common worldviews, and its history does not end today.