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Marriage Relationships in Tudor Political Drama (Hardcover)
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Marriage Relationships in Tudor Political Drama (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Originally published in 2005. While several recent studies have
investigated the political dimensions of sixteenth-century English
drama, until now there has not been a monograph that tells the
story of how and why royal marital selection was examined. By
linking court interludes, neoclassical university tragedies, and
popular plays by late Elizabethan dramatists Christopher Marlowe,
John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, and William Shakespeare to the inflammatory
topic of Tudor marriage, Michael Winkelman demonstrates their
cultural centrality. This new work interrogates the symbolic,
allusive, and mimetic aspects of marital relationships in such
plays. Winkelman argues that they were crucial battlegrounds for a
series of consequential debates about the future of the monarchy,
especially during the reigns of the oft-married King Henry VIII and
his unmarried daughter, the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I. Marriage, as
a critically important political metaphor as well as a pressing
realpolitik quandary, was the subject of major debate in the drama
and government of Tudor England. Royal conduct in the domestic
sphere had a tremendous impact on the entire English social order,
and in an age before widespread freedom of speech, court drama was
often the only venue where the voicing of criticism was tolerated.
The fascinating soap-opera story of Tudor marriage thus provides
the author with a reference point for an interdisciplinary study of
sixteenth-century theatre and politics. Drawing on evidence from
playbooks and historical chronicles as well as contemporary work in
gender studies, audience-response theory, and anthropology, this
book explores how during a time of anxiety-inducing change,
playwrights discussed controversies and propounded remedies;
theatre played a pivotal role in shaping society.
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