The Play of Truth & State: Historical Drama from Shakespeare to Brecht

action argues audience audience's Banks's Brecht Brutus century Charles Christina contemporary context court critics Danton Danton's Death discussion divine dramatists Dryden Duke Duke of Guise Engelbrekt English history Erik Essay Essex Falstaff Folkungs force Ford Ford's French Galileo Georg Büchner Geschichte Glendower Glendower's Göran Guise Gustav III Gustav Vasa Hal's Henry IV Henry VIII Henry's hero heroic historians historical drama history plays history's Hotspur human humanist ideal insists Jane Shore John Jonson king king's language lines London Lorenzaccio Lorenzo Mäster Olof monarch moral Mortimer Musset nature Nicholas Rowe offers Olof's Orrery paradox parallel passion past pathos Perkin Warbeck play's playwrights political prince problem prologue providential queen references are cited Restoration Revolution Rowe's royal says scene Schiller Sejanus Shakespeare Shakespeare's histories stage Strindberg subsequent references suggests theater theatrical Thekla tion tradition tragedy truth Tudor University Press vision Wallenstein Walter Johnson Welsh wholly