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  • Chapter 11 - Musical Reinventions for the King’s Men

  • from Part IV - Making It New: Frames and Forms
  • Edited by Eoin Price, University of Edinburgh, Harry Newman, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book:
    Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
    Published online:
    06 May 2026
    Print publication:
    25 June 2026, pp 200-217

  • Summary

    When the King’s Men took over the residency of the Blackfriars indoor theatre in 1609, they embarked upon a period of conscious reinvention of company identity, combining their existing resources and reputation with a new playing space, audience, financial approach, and performative sensibility. The company made music a key part of this reinvention, drawing on its new assets to increase the presence and variety of original music in its plays. By 1642 they still held a reputation for musical innovation, performing newly written music for both new and older plays in the repertory; their musical settings were still newly circulated in manuscript and print into the 1650s. This chapter explores these musical reinventions, examining dramatic impacts of altered lyrics, melody, harmony, accompaniment, and performance style.

  • Chapter 11 - Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

  • Max Skjönsberg, University of Liverpool
  • Book:
    The Persistence of Party
    Published online:
    27 January 2021
    Print publication:
    28 January 2021, pp 253-276

  • Summary

    This chapter considers Burke’s most famous text in defence of party: Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontent (1770). With political life having been essentially purged of Jacobitism, an unapologetic case for party was now possible. This party, posing as the Whig party, viewed itself as the protector of Britain’s Revolution Settlement and its mixed and balanced constitution in opposition to what was perceived as a revived Toryism supporting George III and his favourite Bute’s ‘court system’. Burke viewed men and measures as interlinked and believed that a party had to seek office and negotiate with the monarch as a corps. This was diametrically opposed to the earlier ‘not men, but measures’ slogan at the heart of John Brown’s writings and the Pittite patriot platform.

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