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Making Make-Believe Real - Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time (Paperback)
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Making Make-Believe Real - Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time (Paperback)
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A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative
performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power
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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