The new Elizabethan age : culture, society and national identity after World War II
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941.084 092 CHU/Q Quotable wisdom | 941.085 8 MAK MAking Thatcher's Britain | 941.085 HAT/F Fifty years on : a prejudiced history of Britain since the war | 941.085 NEW The new Elizabethan age : culture, society and national identity after World War II | 941.085092 CLA/L The last diaries : in and out of the wilderness | 941.0855 SMY/C Cold War culture : intellectuals, the media and the practice of history | 941.0857 THA/D The downing sreet years |
In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turned to the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middle of that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbed within a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage and cultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new, young Queen named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded anation that would now see its 'modern', televised monarch preside over animminently glorious and artistic age.This book provides the first in-depth investigation of New Elizabethanismand its legacy. With contributions from leading cultural practitioners andscholars, its essays explore New Elizabethanism as variously manifestin ballet and opera, the Coronation broadcast and festivities, nationalhistoriography and myth, the idea of the 'Young Elizabethan', celebrations of air travel and new technologies, and the New Shakespeareanism of theatre and television. As these essays expose, New Elizabethanism was muchmore than a brief moment of optimistic hyperbole.
Indeed, from modern drama and film to the reinternment of Richard III, from the London Olympics to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, it continues to pervade contemporary artistic expression, politics, and key moments of national pageantry.
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