Shakespeare, the king's playwright : theater in the Stuart court, 1603-1613

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kernan, Alvin B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1997, ©1995.
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > To 1625.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > England.
James > I, > King of England, > 1566-1625.
Stuart, House of.
James > I, > King of England.
Stuart (House of)
Maison des Stuarts.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
To 1699
Authors and patrons > England > History > 17th century.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Écrivains et mécènes > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Authors and patrons.
Courts and courtiers.
Theater.
Great Britain > Court and courtiers > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > History > James I, 1603-1625.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1603-1625 (Jacques Ier)
England.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Shakespeare at the Stuart Court
  • Art and theater in the service of the Leviathan state
  • Blood revenge in Elsinore and in holyrood : Hamlet (Hampton Court, Christmas 1603)
  • The king's prerogative and the law : Measure for measure (Whitehall, December 26, 1604)
  • The politics of madness and demonism : Macbeth (Hampton Court, August 7, 1606)
  • The true king : Lear (Whitehall, Christmas 1606)
  • Sex and favor in the court : Antony and Cleopatra (Whitehall, Christmas 1607)
  • The military and the court aristocracies : Coriolanus (Whitehall, Christmas 1608)
  • The king and the poet : The tempest (Whitehall, Winter 1613)
  • Shakespeare's sonnets and patronage art
  • What the king saw, what the poet wrote
  • Appendix A : Theatrical calendar of the King's Men at court, 1603-14
  • Appendix B : The Great Hall at Christ Church, Oxford, August 1605.

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