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• catalog abstract "In Henry V, Shakespeare describes a royal performance - with "princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling scene"--That would have been impossible in England's public theaters. Such was not the case in court theaters, however, where monarchs sponsored and participated in a wide range of theatrical activities. The close association between monarch and actor, kingdom and stage, was "no noveltie" to Castiglione, who warned that princes who act would run the risk of never being taken seriously. A conspicuous example was Sweden's Gustav III, who wrote, acted in, and personally supervised the production of plays - and was murdered, in costume, at a masked ball. In Princes to Act, Matthew Wikander explores royal court performance from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth century, when plays with monarchs as characters were typically performed before royal audiences. Focusing on the courts of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I of England, Louis XIV and Louis XV of France, and Gustav III of Sweden, Wikander finds that the close and complex relationships between professional theaters and royal patrons infused imperial politics with irony and theatricality - as actors and audiences learned the secret that playing the king and being the king were surprisingly similar. Princes to Act describes how theater and monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries existed in mutual dependency and mutual mistrust, leading to performances that both affirmed and challenged the social boundaries between monarch and actor, audience and performer. Treating each dramatic work both as script for a specific occasion and as a literary text that outlives performance, Wikander explores selected plays by Shakespeare, Davenant, Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Voltaire, and others. Transformations in the political institution of the monarchy, he concludes, were anticipated and imitated in the dramas of the age. At the beginning of the period, the people kept their eyes on the monarch. By the end of the period, the monarch would need to keep his eye on the people. Moving beyond new historicist criticism, this imaginative study stresses the complexity and persistence of theatrical art beyond the conditions of its original performance.".
• catalog contributor b4105958.
• catalog coverage "Europe Court and courtiers.".
• catalog coverage "Great Britain Court and courtiers.".
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "1. Royal Performance, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a Royal Progress -- 2. "I love the people, but ... ": Royal Performance and Royal Audience in the Court of James I -- 3. The King in Love: The Union of the King's Two Bodies in the Court of Charles I -- 4. "Je suis maitre de moi comme de l'univers . . .": In Search of Absolutism in the Court of Louis XIV -- 5. Le Roi Voltaire: The Monarch of Wit in the Courts of Louis XV and Frederick the Great -- 6. Player and King: Gustav III.".
• catalog description "By the end of the period, the monarch would need to keep his eye on the people. Moving beyond new historicist criticism, this imaginative study stresses the complexity and persistence of theatrical art beyond the conditions of its original performance.".
• catalog description "In Henry V, Shakespeare describes a royal performance - with "princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling scene"--That would have been impossible in England's public theaters. Such was not the case in court theaters, however, where monarchs sponsored and participated in a wide range of theatrical activities. The close association between monarch and actor, kingdom and stage, was "no noveltie" to Castiglione, who warned that princes who act would run the risk of never being taken seriously. A conspicuous example was Sweden's Gustav III, who wrote, acted in, and personally supervised the production of plays - and was murdered, in costume, at a masked ball.".
• catalog description "In Princes to Act, Matthew Wikander explores royal court performance from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth century, when plays with monarchs as characters were typically performed before royal audiences. Focusing on the courts of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I of England, Louis XIV and Louis XV of France, and Gustav III of Sweden, Wikander finds that the close and complex relationships between professional theaters and royal patrons infused imperial politics with irony and theatricality - as actors and audiences learned the secret that playing the king and being the king were surprisingly similar.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-338) and index.".
• catalog description "Princes to Act describes how theater and monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries existed in mutual dependency and mutual mistrust, leading to performances that both affirmed and challenged the social boundaries between monarch and actor, audience and performer. Treating each dramatic work both as script for a specific occasion and as a literary text that outlives performance, Wikander explores selected plays by Shakespeare, Davenant, Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Voltaire, and others. Transformations in the political institution of the monarchy, he concludes, were anticipated and imitated in the dramas of the age. At the beginning of the period, the people kept their eyes on the monarch.".
• catalog extent "x, 348 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0801844282".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Europe Court and courtiers.".
• catalog spatial "Europe".
• catalog spatial "Europe.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain Court and courtiers.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "792/.094 20".
• catalog subject "English drama History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "European drama History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Masques History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Masques, English History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "PN2570 .W55 1993".
• catalog subject "PN2570 .W55 1993X".
• catalog subject "Theater Europe History.".
• catalog subject "Theater Great Britain History.".
• catalog subject "Theater Political aspects Europe.".
• catalog subject "Theater Political aspects Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "Theater audiences Europe History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Royal Performance, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a Royal Progress -- 2. "I love the people, but ... ": Royal Performance and Royal Audience in the Court of James I -- 3. The King in Love: The Union of the King's Two Bodies in the Court of Charles I -- 4. "Je suis maitre de moi comme de l'univers . . .": In Search of Absolutism in the Court of Louis XIV -- 5. Le Roi Voltaire: The Monarch of Wit in the Courts of Louis XV and Frederick the Great -- 6. Player and King: Gustav III.".
• catalog title "Princes to act : royal audience and royal performance, 1578-1792 / Matthew H. Wikander.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".