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020			_a9780300225662 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aPR2982 _b.H697 2016
100	1		_aLake, Peter. _e1
245	1	0	_aHow Shakespeare put politics on the stage _bpower and succession in the history plays / _cPeter Lake.
260			_aCumberland : _bYale University Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource (683 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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500			_aDescription based upon print version of record.
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505	0	0	_aCover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction and acknowledgements; PART I Contexts and structures; Back to the future: Catholics and protestants learn the lessons of history; Putting the (high) politics back into 'power'; Elizabethan political history, now; The arts of history; Putting history on the stage; History and the 'now' of performance; Getting the audience to do the work; Plays and pamphlets, pamphlets and plays; PART II Past into present and future: 2 and 3 Henry VI and the politics of lost legitimacy
505	0	0	_aCHAPTER 1 Losing legitimacy: monarchical weakness andthe descent into disorderThe politics of faction anatomised; The 'good duke' (of Gloucester); Good counsellor/evil counsellor; True tragedy: the fall of Gloucester; Monarchical rule as the enabling condition of good counsel; CHAPTER 2 Disorder dissected (i): the inversion of the gender order; Disorderly wives and witches; Women on top: the resistible rise of Queen Margaret; The 'Amazonian trull'; Not clerical but lay: the cross-dressing Henry VI; Beyond evil counsel: the Christian prince as oxymoron
505	0	0	_aCHAPTER 3 Disorder dissected (ii): the inversion of the social order'We are in order when we are most out of order'; Puritan popularity personified; A mirror for (dysfunctional) magistrates?; CHAPTER 4 Hereditary 'right' and political legitimacy anatomised; The right to rule unravelled; A monarchical republic (not); When honour becomes revenge; From Lancaster to Tudor; PART III Happy endings and alternative outcomes: 1 Henry VI and Richard III; CHAPTER 5 How not to go there: 1 Henry VI as prequel and alternative ending; Faction politics; Succession politics; The politics of virtue
505	0	0	_aHonour and its enemies: women on top -- _tagainAnti-popery; Divided we fall: the politics of faction in time of war; CHAPTER 6 Richard III: political ends, providential means; The making of a Machiavel; Monstrous bodies and providential signs; Signs and prophecies; The audience as 'high all- seer'; Ambiguities of 'evil counsel'; From providence to predestination: the return of legitimacy; Richard III as a guide to the past, present and future; CHAPTER 7 Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared; PART IV How (not) to depose a tyrant: King John and Richard II
505	0	0	_aCHAPTER 8 The Elizabethan resonances of the reign of King JohnCatholic and protestant appropriations of King John; The Holinshed account; CHAPTER 9 The first time as polemic, the second time as play: Shakespeare's King John and The troublesome reign; Legitimacy problematised; The bastard; Commodity; Popery in The troublesome reign; Popery and the descent into tyranny in King John; The apotheosis of the bastard; England and providence; CHAPTER 10 Richard II, or the rights and wrongs of resistance; Tyranny anatomised; Tyranny outed; The fallacies of sacred kingship
500			_aFrom the reformation of the kingdom to rebellion, usurpation and regicide
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650		0	_aHistorical drama, English _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature and history.
650		0	_aPolitics in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1405825&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell