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Text/events in early modern England : poetics of history

Covering a range of events - historical moments, theatrical performances, public presentations, and courtly intrigues - and the texts that record them, this book explores representational practice as a component of Elizabethan political culture.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Ashgate, Aldershot, England, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 360 p. ; 24 cm
9780754655862, 0754655865
192054861
Contemporary Elizabethan events and accounts
"Writing doth remain" : accounts of the coronation entry of Elizabeth I
Inscribing performance : art and artlessness at Kenilworth, 1575
Invocations of the past
Chronicling the English past : child-kings, the succession question, and Richard II
The drama of history : "counterfait" representations and "lively patterns."