"[Wikander's] meticulous and imaginative study... subtly chronicles an evolving dynamic between ruler and ruled as mirrored in the circumstances of court performances."--Theatre History Studies Princes to Act describes how theater and monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries existed in mutual dependency and mutual mistrust, leading to performances that both affirmed and challenged the social boundaries between monarch and actor, audience and performer. Wikander explores selected plays by Shakespeare, Davenant, ...
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"[Wikander's] meticulous and imaginative study... subtly chronicles an evolving dynamic between ruler and ruled as mirrored in the circumstances of court performances."--Theatre History Studies Princes to Act describes how theater and monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries existed in mutual dependency and mutual mistrust, leading to performances that both affirmed and challenged the social boundaries between monarch and actor, audience and performer. Wikander explores selected plays by Shakespeare, Davenant, Corneille, Molire, Racine, Voltaire, and others.
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Add this copy of Princes to Act: Royal Audience and Royal Performance, to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Johns Hopkins University Press,.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0801844282. First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, additionally INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner on the front free endpaper. Handwritten note from the author also laid in. Light foxing on top edge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
