1590s Drama and Militarism

The premise of this work is that plays about war and the "art of war" literature proliferating in the 1590s intervene in the military realities of the last few years of Elizabeth's reign much more closely than is appreciated. The author seeks to reconstruct the particular anxieties which surround the military events of the 1590s through a significant but usually neglected genre, the treatises and manuals of war, in order to deepen understanding of the plays themselves as staged responses to specific wartime conditions. The study re-evaluates the experience, practices and concepts of war by considering them alongside historical events, prescriptive writings and dramatic representations.

ISBN	0754602745	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9780754602743 (What's this?)	Pages	260
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing Group	Volumes	001
Imprint	Ashgate Publishing Limited	Weight (grammes)	476
Format	Hardback	Published in	Aldershot
Publication date	03 Oct 2001	Height (mm)	156
Non-book description	239 p. ;	Width (mm)	223
Library of Congress	PR649.W37	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY	822.309358

Introduction - the brazen throat of war. Part 1 Generals: the real and the ideal - Sutcliffe, Essex; alternative model - Northumberland; Marlowe's "Tamburlaine"; Shakespeare's "Henry V"; commanders in action - Henri IV of France, the Birons and Roger Williams, the siege of Rouen; Chapman's Byron. Part 2 Stratagems of war: strategy; tactics; numbers; arms and the man; rhetoric. Part 3 Camps: watchfulness - "Henry V"; locations - "Caesar and Pompey"; forbidden presences - the women in the two "Tamburlaine" plays. Coda.

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Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare's "Henry V"

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