Longstaffe, Stephen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7561-0581
(2012)
The troublesome reign of King John.
In: Betteridge, Thomas and Walker, Greg, (eds.)
The Oxford handbook of Tudor drama.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
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Abstract
This article analyzes The Queen's Men's The Troublesome Reign of King John. As a source of Shakespeare's King John, the play remained in his shadow more or less until the publication in 1998 by Scott McMillin and Sally-Beth MacLean of their ground-breaking book The Queen's Men and their Plays. The key to their approach was to imagine the play in performance and on tour, as part of a repertory with its own distinct dramaturgical, stylistic, and political characteristics, in the service of the broad project of newly protestant nation-making usually identified principally with Walsingham and Leicester. In this account, the Queen's Men come over as a sixteenth-century English version of the Berliner Ensemble, with an aesthetics inseparable from a politics, and both disseminated via the touring which was the company's raison d'être. This approach continues to yield new insights into the play.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Departments: | Academic Departments > Institute of Arts (IOA) > Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Anna Lupton |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2015 12:53 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2024 11:00 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1926 |
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