Molly Smith
Ashgate
Hardback
168
1998
The period 1585?1649 was rich in innovative drama which challenged the boundaries between social political and cultural activities of various kinds. In this book Molly Smith examines ways in which texts by Renaissance authors reflect question and influence their society?s ideological concerns. In the drama of Kyd Shakespeare Beaumont and Fletcher Webster Middleton Massinger and Ford she identifies the simultaneously serious and playful appropriation of popular cultural practices an appropriation which is expertly reversed by authorities in the political drama of Charles I?s public trial and execution in 1649.
Ashgate
Hardback
168
1998
The period 1585?1649 was rich in innovative drama which challenged the boundaries between social political and cultural activities of various kinds. In this book Molly Smith examines ways in which texts by Renaissance authors reflect question and influence their society?s ideological concerns. In the drama of Kyd Shakespeare Beaumont and Fletcher Webster Middleton Massinger and Ford she identifies the simultaneously serious and playful appropriation of popular cultural practices an appropriation which is expertly reversed by authorities in the political drama of Charles I?s public trial and execution in 1649.