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Staging Authority in Caroline England - Prerogative, Law and Order in Drama, 1625-1642 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Staging Authority in Caroline England - Prerogative, Law and Order in Drama, 1625-1642 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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