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Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play, by Dermot Cavanagh. New York: Palgrave, 2003. Pp. x + 197. Cloth, $65.00.
Dermot Cavanagh pursues two announced projects in Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play. First, Cavanagh seeks to "resuscitate" and to reconfigure the concept of the sixteenth-century history play as a critical category. Second, Cavanagh argues that the six Tudor dramas he studies each presents critical reflections upon the "topic" of "socially disruptive speech" (6). Cavanagh's pursuit of the first of these projects is successful and compelling; his pursuit of the second is often fruitful but at times raises ...