A01=Andrew M. Kirk
audiences
Author_Andrew M. Kirk
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Category=DSG
Category=NHD
Chapman's Heroes
Chapman's Tragedies
Chapman’s Heroes
Chapman’s Tragedies
Charles IX
contemporary
Contemporary French History
cross-cultural identity construction
cultural exchange studies
disorder
early modern drama
Edward III
english
English Political Authorities
English-French relations
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eq_history
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ethnographic analysis literature
french
French Disorder
French History
French Mutability
Guise's Death
Guise’s Death
Henri III
henry
Henry III
Henry IV
historical representation theory
historiography
history
iii
Irving Ribner
John Stubbs
king
King Edward III
La Popeliniere
Marlowe's Portrait
Marlowe’s Portrait
Mutable World
Play's Dramatic Structure
Play’s Dramatic Structure
Providential Pattern
Renaissance political narratives
Richard III
Robert Dallington
Salisbury's Death
Salisbury’s Death
Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos
Product details
- ISBN 9780815320913
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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How did English dramatists portray the neighboring domain of France and its history in their plays? The study examines a selection of Shakespearean and other history plays, the French tragedies of George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe's revealing historical tragedy The Massacre at Paris, and several literary and nonliterary historical texts. The result is a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of how cultural differences influenced the historical perspectives of English dramatists as well as how Renaissance plays shaped, and were shaped by, their historical material. Drawing on the insights of cultural studies, historiography, and ethnography, this study re-examines the historical representation of a neglected yet influential part of early modern Europe and the paradoxical relationship between English writers and their French subject matter. Although information about France and French history was becoming increasingly available in England at the end of the sixteenth century, for English writers France remained a distant land, its history and people misunderstood and misrepresented.
