Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play (Early Modern Literature in History)

by Dermot Cavanagh (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $59.97

  Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat presented by uncivil language. 'Unlicensed' speech informs the presentation of political debate in Tudor history plays and it is also the subject of their most daring political speculations.