Making Make Believe Real
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Making Make-Believe Real
Shakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe’s Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth. Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianity’s rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeth’s reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule.
Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35
Author: Sara Freeman
language: en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date: 2016-12-06
Rosemarie K. Bank and Michal Kobialka, eds., Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter / Reviewed by Danny Devlin
The Land of Green Eyes
I welcome you one and all, old and young alike to another great tale of the event of events known as "The Turning." We start with introducing Isabel, a normal girl who was only looking forward to summer vacation. That was until metal men fell out of the sky. Now, her grandmother has been turned into a crystal and she's stranded on an island with no way to get back home. Her only choice is to make some new allies that will help her with The Time of the Turning.