3857540Making Make-Believe Realhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/making-make-believe-real-9780300206913/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2604018/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638384201504700000443615MXNYale University PressInStock/Ebooks/<div>Shakespeares plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowes Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth.<br> <br> Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianitys rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeths reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule.</div>...3793649Making Make-Believe Real443615https://www.gandhi.com.mx/making-make-believe-real-9780300206913/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2604018/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638384201504700000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20149780300206913_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9780300206913_<div>Shakespeares plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowes Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a sense of theater was essential to the exercise of power. Real rulers knew it, too, and none better than Queen Elizabeth. In this fascinating study of political stagecraft in the Elizabethan era, Garry Wills explores a period of vast cultural and political change during which the power of make-believe to make power real was not just a theory but an essential truth.<br> <br> Wills examines English culture as Catholic Christianitys rituals were being overturned and a Protestant queen took the throne. New iconographies of power were necessary for the new Renaissance liturgy to displace the medieval church-state. The author illuminates the extensive imaginative constructions that went into Elizabeths reign and the explosion of great Tudor and Stuart drama that provided the imaginative power to support her long and successful rule.</div>9780300206913_Yale University Presslibro_electonico_526594b1-b6e1-3eb5-b1ba-a5704baf865f_9780300206913;9780300206913_9780300206913Garry WillsInglésMéxico2014-06-10T00:00:00+00:00Yale University Press