Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The politics of printed drama in 1650s Britain; Chapter 1: The ambivalent political messaging of Royalist drama, 1649-1650; Chapter 2: Poetics as political policy: the republic's early response to Royalist drama, 1649-1651; Chapter 3: "A floating unbalanced people": Drama and the instability of the republican state, 1651-1653; Chapter 4: They "always speak things as they would have them": The failures of aspirational royalist drama, 1651-1653; Chapter 5: Royalist drama, the legitimacy of authority, and social and political unrest in the mid-1650s; Chapter 6: Republics and ethics: The moral probity of protectoral entertainments, 1653-1658; Conclusion: The hijacking of republican poetics; Index

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos teatrais
• Teorias literárias
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos

Printed Drama;Political Instability;Mid-Seventeenth Century Britain;Literary Politics;Poetics;Royalist drama;1650s Britain