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To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England. In Heroes and States, Douglas Canfield argues that drama not only represents but actually helps constitute the value and belief systems of an entire culture. Heroes and States completes Canfield's two-volume cultural history of Restoration drama, begun in Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology

Heroes in literature. --- State, The, in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Political plays, English --- Politics and literature --- English drama (Tragedy) --- English drama --- History and criticism. --- History

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Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain; and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. The book argues that between 1603 and 1625 a group of playwrights celebrated a new national consciousness in works as diverse as Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent, Rowley's The Birth of Merlin and Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Specifically Jacobean interdisciplinary studies are few compared with Elizabethan and Caroline works, but the book attempts to redress the balance by offering a fresh appraisal of James Stuart's reign. Looking at both established and little-known plays and playwrights, Theatre and empire rewrites our understanding of the political and cultural context of the Jacobean stage.

Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Political plays, English --- Theater --- Politics and literature --- English drama --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain --- In literature. --- Historiography. --- Empire. --- England. --- English throne. --- Great Britain. --- Jacobean empire. --- Jacobean. --- King James VI. --- King James. --- London stages. --- Middleton. --- Rowley. --- Scotland. --- Shakespeare. --- Theatre. --- drama. --- dramatic material. --- early modern history. --- foreign policy. --- plays. --- political culture. --- public opinion. --- stage. --- theatre companies.