Staging Britain's Past : Pre-Roman Britain in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover)

Introduction § A variety of Leirs § Questions of Terminology § Performed History and Historiography § Brutan Drama in Performance and Print, 1486-1634 Chapter One: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Etiological Erosion § Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Brutan Histories in Transmission § Gorboduc as Performed History Chapter Two: Staging Brutan Origins (1486-1600) § Civic Brutan Performance § The Conqueste of Brute § Locrine: playing the Brutan Dead § King Lude in New Jerusalem Chapter Three: Reading Brutan Erosion (1604-1608) § James VI & I and "true chronicle history" § Leir and Universal History § No-body and Some-body: Upstaging History § King Lear: "historica passio" Chapter Four: The End of Brutan Time (1610-1637) § Brutan and Roman Histories § Cymbeline, Eagles and the "Diminution of Space" § Fuimus Troes § Albions Trivmph § A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus) Conclusions: Frances Wolfreston's collection Notes Bibliography Index