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Shakespeare and the Royal Actor
Sally Barnden
其他書名
Performing Monarchy, 1760-1952
出版Oxford University Press, 2024-01-22
主題Literary Criticism / ShakespeareLiterary Criticism / RenaissancePerforming Arts / Theater / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralArt / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / GeneralArt / History / General
ISBN019889502X9780198895022
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F7rvEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Shakespeare and the Royal Actor argues that members of the royal family have identified with Shakespearean figures at various times in modern history to assert the continuity, legitimacy, and national identity of the royal line. It provides an account of the relationship between the Shakespearean afterlife and the royal family through the lens of a broadly conceived theatre history suggesting that these two hegemonic institutions had a mutually sustaining relationship from the accession of George III in 1760 to that of Elizabeth II in 1952. Identifications with Shakespearean figures have been deployed to assert the Englishness of a dynasty with strong familial links to Germany and to cultivate a sense of continuity from the more autocratic Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart monarchs informing Shakespeare's drama to the increasingly ceremonial monarchs of the modern period. The book is driven by new archival research in the Royal Collection and Royal Archives. It reads these archives critically, asking how different forms of royal and Shakespearean performance are remembered in the material holdings of royal institutions.