درام و جانشینی به تاج، ۱۵۶۱-۱۶۳۳

The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time - by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others - reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne. Hopkins (English, Sheffield Hallam U.) examines how drama dealt with complexities surrounding the question of who would succeed Elizabeth I on the English throne, for example uncertainty about what exactly comprised the realm she ruled and would pass on to a successor. Her topics are Christopher Marlowe and the succession to the English crown, Romans and fairies, Robin Hood and the king's two bodies, female transmission and female taint, Antonios and Stewards, one king and two kingdoms, and John Ford and the 1630s. Some of the material has been published elsewhere. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Figure......Page 11 Introduction......Page 12 Christopher Marlowe and the Succession to the English Crown......Page 30 Romans and Fairies......Page 48 Robin Hood and the King's Two Bodies......Page 68 Female Transmission, Female Taint......Page 86 Antonios and Stewards......Page 108 One King, Two Kingdoms?......Page 126 John Ford and the 1630s......Page 148 Conclusion......Page 166 Works Cited......Page 168 Index......Page 184 The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topics not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James's two kingdoms might be ruled after his death.