Governmental Arts in Early Tudor England |
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| Author:
| Polito, Mary |
| Series title: | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-3420-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2005 |
| Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing, Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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Drawing on a range of primary documents, including 'secular interludes' by Skelton, Rastell and Bale, Governmental Arts in Early Tudor England argues that Tudor governmentality and its relationship to performance helped create the conditions for the emergence of the Elizabethan public theatre and the critical subjects who would consume it. The pervasive anxiety in government discourse about dissimulation and sexuality renders both the theatre and sensual pleasure tremendously...
More DescriptionDrawing on a range of primary documents, including 'secular interludes' by Skelton, Rastell and Bale, Governmental Arts in Early Tudor England argues that Tudor governmentality and its relationship to performance helped create the conditions for the emergence of the Elizabethan public theatre and the critical subjects who would consume it. The pervasive anxiety in government discourse about dissimulation and sexuality renders both the theatre and sensual pleasure tremendously compelling and inevitably interlinked.