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" Brute, untill this day? beeing possest of their true use, for or because playes are writ with this ayme, and carryed with this methode, to teach their subjects obedience to their king, to shew the people the untimely ends of such as have moved tumults,... "
Renaissance Historicism: Selections from English Literary Renaissance
edited by - 1987 - 411 pages
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Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles

Phyllis Rackin - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...of all our English Chronicles. . . . Playes are writ with this ayme, and carryed with this méthode, to teach the subjects obedience to their King, to...present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience, exhorting them to allégeance, dehorting them from all traytorous and fellonious...
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Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 1, Plato to Congreve

Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 332 pages
...and carried with this method: to teach the sublects obedience to their king: to show the untimely end of such as have moved tumults, commotions and insurrections:...present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience, exhorting them to allegiance: dehorting them from all traitorous and felonious stratagems....
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Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts

J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring - Drama - 1993 - 296 pages
...the state. He insisted that plays were to teach . . . subiects true obedience to their king, to show people the untimely ends of such as have moved tumults,...present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience, exhorting them to obedience, dehorting them from all traiterous and felonious stratagems.17...
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Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England

Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 pages
...reading. Plays, wrote Heywood, should strive "to teach the subjects obedience to their king, to show the people the untimely ends of such as have moved...present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience."34 As early as 1592, Nashe insisted that this objective was already being met. "No...
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The Works of John Webster, Volume 2

John Webster - Literary Collections - 1995 - 688 pages
...subiects true obedience to their King, to shew the people the vntimely ends of such as haue inoued tumults, commotions and insurrections, to present them with the flourishing estate of such as Hue in obedience, exhorting them to allegeance, dehorting them from all trayterous and fellonious stratagems'...
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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 7

J. Leeds Barroll - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 460 pages
...fact, in his An Apology for Actors (1612), Heywood defines the chronicle history play as one designed to teach the subjects obedience to their King, to shew the people the vntimely ends as such as haue moued tumults, commotions, and insurrections, to present the[m] with...
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The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the ...

Louis Montrose - Drama - 1996 - 246 pages
...celebrated corpus — Heywood maintains that these are writ with this ayme, and carryed with this méthode, to teach the subjects obedience to their King, to...present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience, exhorting them to allégeance, dehorting them from all trayterous and fellonious...
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Political Shakespeare

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 334 pages
...ideological function: "Playes are wril with this ayme, and carryed with this methode," wrote Thomas Hcywood, "to teach the subjects obedience to their King, to shew the people the vntimely ends of such as haue moued tumults, commotions, and insurrections, to present them with the...
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Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity

Melveena McKendrick - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 242 pages
...An Apology for Actors (1612) maintains, 'to teach their subjects obedience to their kings, to show the people the untimely ends of such as have moved...insurrections, to present them with the flourishing estate of those that live in obedience', 4 then Peribdnez and Fuenteovejuna certainly do not comply. The didactic...
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Sites of Discourse, Public and Private Spheres, Legal Culture: Papers from a ...

Uwe Böker, Julie A. Hibbard - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...a systematic account of the positive influence of stage plays. He suggested that their purpose was: to teach the subjects obedience to their King, to...present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience, exhorting them to allegeance, dehorting them from all trayterous and fellonious...
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