John Ford's political theatre
Little is known about the life and career of the Caroline dramatist, John Ford. This book draws on new research to place him and his plays in some unexpected new contexts, enabling the works to be read in the light of some of the major political and religious controversies of the age.
Print Book, English, ©1994
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, ©1994
Aufsatzsammlung
196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780719037979, 0719037972
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pt. I. Politics. 1. A Catholic coterie. 2. Perkin Warbeck: a Stuart succession play?
pt. II. Religion. 3. Feast and fast. 4. 'A prey to words'. 5. 'Speaking sweat'. 6. Emblematic staging