List of illustrations Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction Chapter One: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Etiological Erosion Chapter Two: Staging Brutan Origins (1486–1600) Chapter Three: Reading Brutan Erosion (1604–1608) Chapter Four: The Diminution of Brutan Time (1610–1637) Conclusions Works Cited Index
The first monograph on the early modern performance of pre-Roman British history, setting key works such as Gorboduc and King Lear within a popular and ideologically charged theatrical tradition reaching from the reign of Henry VII to that of Charles I.
Kim Gilchrist is Disglair Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, UK. Previously, he worked as a Teaching Fellow and completed a PhD in early modern drama at the University of Roehampton, UK, where he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship. He has taught on Shakespeare and early modern literature at Cardiff, Roehampton, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Central School of Speech and Drama.
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