Marriage relationships in Tudor political drama
By: Michael A. Winkelman
Series: Studies in performance and early modern drama
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Marriage in literature; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Political plays, English -- History and criticism; Married people in literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index