Staging Authority in Caroline England
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Author_Jessica Dyson
Caroline Drama
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Charles's Personal Rule
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Charles’s Personal Rule
Common Law Courts
common law tradition
Court's Designation
Court’s Designation
Covent Garden
Customary Common Law
Doubtful Heir
drama
early modern legal history
English Renaissance theatre
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Fine Militia
Forced Loan
High Constable
Justice Preamble
Lady Frampul
law and politics in Caroline plays
legal discourse in drama
legitimate
Legitimate Legal Authorities
Local Authority Figures
money
Pettie Parliament
Petty Constables
political authority debates
prerogative
Queenes Exchange
roman
Roman Actor
royal
seventeenth-century governance
Shakespeare's Henry IV
Shakespeare’s Henry IV
ship
Ship Money
Ship Money Sheriffs
stage
Star Chamber
Trial Scenes
War Time
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781409433323
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Considering plays by Philip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, John Ford and James Shirley, this study addresses the political import of Caroline drama as it engages with contemporary struggles over authority between royal prerogative, common law and local custom in seventeenth-century England. How are these different aspects of law and government constructed and negotiated in plays of the period? What did these stagings mean in the increasingly unstable political context of Caroline England? Beginning each chapter with a summary of the legal and political debates relevant to the forms of authority contested in the plays of that chapter, Jessica Dyson responds to these kinds of questions, arguing that drama provides a medium whereby the political and legal debates of the period may be presented to, and debated by, a wider audience than the more technical contemporary discourses of law could permit. In so doing, this book transforms our understanding of the Caroline commercial theatre’s relationship with legal authority.
Jessica Dyson is Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
