A Study Of Partiotism In The Elizabethan Drama

Investigates English patriotism as portrayed in Elizabethan drama.

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Should be of value to any historian of the Elizabethan age who wishes to take illustrations of popular opinion from the drama; & the literary critic who is interested in appraising the effect of patriotism upon literature will find here all the material for his study that the Elizabethan Drama can furnish.

This work focuses on thirteen English Renaissance plays: the Anonymous Famous Victories of Henry V and Edward III, the apocryphal plays Sir John Oldcastle and Thomas, Lord Cromwell, the pseudo-Shakespearean Edmund Ironside, and Shakespeare's 1, 2, 3 Henry VI, King John, Richard II, 1, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V. Discussed are the spectators in the socially mixed audience who responded differently, depending on individual political biases, and who had to be considered if the plays were to reach the stage.