Marriage relationships in Tudor political drama

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"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." "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."--Jacket.

subjects: English Political plays,  English drama,  History,  History and criticism,  Literature and society,  Marriage in literature,  Married people in literature,  Political plays, English,  Politics and literature

Places: Great Britain

Times: 16th century,  Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600