TY - BOOK AU - Wiggins,Martin TI - Drama and the transfer of power in Renaissance England SN - 9780191741982 (ebook) : AV - PR649.P6 U1 - 822.309358 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - English drama KW - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 KW - History and criticism KW - 17th century KW - Politics and literature KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - Theater KW - Political aspects KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - 1485-1603 KW - 1603-1649 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from Henry VIII to the English Revolution, paying particular attention to the political function and agency of drama in smoothing the transition UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199650590.001.0001 ER -