Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion

Making and unmaking in early modern English drama spectators, aesthetics and incompletion

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Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'? And what did the terms 'finished' or 'incomplete' mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English dram...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Porter, Chloe, author (author), Frost, Matthew, other (other)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2015.
Colección:Manchester Shakespeare collection
Materias:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Art and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Art and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Material culture in literature > History > 16th century.
Material culture in literature > History > 17th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Art in literature.
Unfinished works of art.
Iconoclasm in literature.
Literature and literary studies
Literature: history and criticism / Literary studies: plays and playwrights.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
Biography, Literature & Literary studies > Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
literature
plays and playwrights
Apelles
Brazen head
Early Modern English
Early modern period
England
Iconoclasm
Visual arts
Visual culture
William Shakespeare
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Sumario:Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'? And what did the terms 'finished' or 'incomplete' mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly. Illustrated with examples from across visual and material culture, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Plays are explored as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual culture, alongside a diverse range of contexts and themes, including iconoclasm, painting, sculpture, clothing and jewellery, automata and invisibility. Asking what it meant for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to 'begin' or 'end' a literary or visual work, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern English drama, literature, visual culture and history.
Notas:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
Also available in print form
Público:Academics and students of early modern history, literature and religious studies.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781526103284
9781526103277
9781847798916

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