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SHAKESPEARE'S PRINCES OF WALES: ENGLISH IDENTITY AND THE WELSH CONNECTION

by Marisa R. Cull

Published by Oxford University Press. 1st. 2014

Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. Spotlightinhg the abundance of princes of Wales - English and Welsh alike - appearing onstage in the late Tudor and early Stuart period. New insights not only into that period's politics and theater, but also in to a title that survives, in continued complexity, to this day. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine.

Boards lightly bumped at corners. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed.

ISBN: 9780198716198
Stock no. 1825056

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Contents

  • Introduction: Welsch Princes, English Playwrights
  • 1. The Princedom of Wales as Political Stage
  • 2. England's Hope? Shadowed Heirs in Shakespeare's Histories
  • 3. "Victorious Stock": The "Native" Prince in Edward III, Edward I, and Henry V.
  • 4. Princes, Playhouses, and the Politics of Empire: Henry Frederick and the Investiture of 1610
  • 5. Anticipating the Revolution: The Princedom in Decline.
  • Epilogue: Beyond the Renaissance
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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