Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution

Beushausen, Katrin

doi:10.1017/9781316850411

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War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649

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2019

Shakespeare Survey 72

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Shakespeare wrote in the shadow of war. His plays deal with the historical conflicts of medieval England and ancient Rome but they were written during the French Wars of Religion, the Anglo-Spanish War, the Nine Years War in Ireland and other significant pan-European conflicts. 1 In death, Shakespeare has only become more tightly entangled with the history of international conflict. Michael Dobson has argued that the Seven Years War helped accelerate the elevation of Shakespeare to the status of national icon. 2 Sarah Valladares has shown how the early-nineteenth-century Peninsular War provided the backdrop to the Covent Garden productions of J.P. Kemble, and the Shakespeare lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 3 Douglas Lanier has written about the commemoration of the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth in the American Civil War, Ton Hoensalaars about the reception of Shakespeare in World War I-era France, and Jésus Tronch about how Hamlet came to represent the sense of ineffectuality and irresolution experienced during the Spanish Civil 1 On Shakespeare and the French Wars of Religion, see Gillian Woods, Shakespeare's

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War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649

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Thomas Higgons’s “The Dismal Tempest”: an unpublished seventeenth-century play fragment

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2019

The Seventeenth Century

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This article introduces a new seventeenth-century play fragment, "The Dismal Tempest," by Sir Thomas Higgons (1623/4-1691), a Member of Parliament. It presents "The Dismal Tempest" as an act of political playwriting and contextualizes it in relation to Higgons's other literary output, including his now-lost collection of poetry. "The Dismal Tempest," I suggest, draws on tropes from pastoral and romance genres in order to promote a pro-Stuart agenda. This article provides the first bibliography of Higgons's works as well as the first edition of his play fragment, which offers important evidence about amateur playwriting and political theatre in seventeenth-century England. With its emphasis on succession and inherent nobility, "The Dismal Tempest" reflects both the theatrical conventions and political climate in which it was written.

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