War and Shakespearean Dramaturgy

King, Ros; Franssen, Paul

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“…With England's withdrawal from military conflicts after the accession of James I in 1603, history plays quickly fell out of fashion 13 . Scholars have held that battle scenes did the same and focused on the Elizabethan era (Fusillo, 1966, ii; King & Franssen, 2008, 3–4; Taunton, 2017). Figure 4, which counts battle keywords in stage directions and sorts them by performance year, offers important nuances to this interpretation.…”

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‘Two Armies flye in…’: Battle scenes in English Renaissance theatre

Dahl

2023

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One of the most spectacular characteristics of English Renaissance theatre is the propensity for battle scenes. Between 1576 and 1616, battle scenes appear in a third of all surviving plays and, judging from the titles, the frequency may have been even higher in the lost plays. The popularity of battle scenes is indicative both of early modern fascination with history as spectacle and of the imminence of contemporary warfare, especially in the final decades of the reign of Elizabeth I. Based on quantitative studies, this paper offers a survey of the evolution and proliferation of battle scenes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and I will critically assess the general assumption that battle scenes eventually waned from the early modern stage as a consequence of the ascent to the throne of the peace‐seeking James I. For reasons to be discussed, it is quite unlikely that James's doctrine on foreign politics had any significant effect on the staging of war in theatre.

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‘Two Armies flye in…’: Battle scenes in English Renaissance theatre

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2023

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War and Shakespearean Dramaturgy

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‘Two Armies flye in…’: Battle scenes in English Renaissance theatre

‘Two Armies flye in…’: Battle scenes in English Renaissance theatre

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