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Making make-believe real : politics as theater in Shakespeare's time

Title
Making make-believe real : politics as theater in Shakespeare's time / Garry Wills.
Author
Wills, Garry, 1934-
Publication
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Description
ix, 414 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth. Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianity's rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeth's reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule"--
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-388) and index.
Call Number
JFE 14-5770
ISBN
  • 9780300197532
  • 0300197535
LCCN
2013050493
OCLC
2013050493
Author
Wills, Garry, 1934- author.
Title
Making make-believe real : politics as theater in Shakespeare's time / Garry Wills.
Publisher
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-388) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 14-5770
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