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Princes to act : royal audience and royal performance, 1578-1792 / Matthew H. Wikander.

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In Henry V, Shakespeare describes a royal performance - with "princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling scene"--That would have been impossible in England's public theaters. Such was not the case in court theaters, however, where monarchs sponsored and participated in a wide...

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Main Author: Wikander, Matthew H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ℗♭1993.
Subjects:
Theater > Europe > History.
Theater > Great Britain > History.
Theater > Political aspects > Europe.
Theater > Political aspects > Great Britain.
European drama > History and criticism.
English drama > History and criticism.
Theater audiences > Europe > History.
Masques, English > History and criticism.
Europe > Court and courtiers.
Great Britain > Court and courtiers.
Courts and courtiers.
English drama.
European drama.
Masques, English.
Theater.
Theater audiences.
Theater > Political aspects.
Europe.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Royal Performance, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a Royal Progress
  • 2. "I love the people, but ... ": Royal Performance and Royal Audience in the Court of James I
  • 3. The King in Love: The Union of the King's Two Bodies in the Court of Charles I
  • 4. "Je suis maitre de moi comme de l'univers . . .": In Search of Absolutism in the Court of Louis XIV
  • 5. Le Roi Voltaire: The Monarch of Wit in the Courts of Louis XV and Frederick the Great
  • 6. Player and King: Gustav III.

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