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Spectacular Performances
- Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England
Engelsk Paperback
Spectacular Performances
- Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England
Engelsk Paperback

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Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help create the author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the word, be illustrated at all? What conventions connect image to text, and what impulses generated the great art collections of the early seventeenth century?

In this richly illustrated collection on theatre, books, art and personal style, the eminent literary critic and cultural historian Stephen Orgel addresses himself to such questions in order to reflect generally on early modern representation and, in the largest sense, early modern performance. As wide-ranging as they are perceptive, the essays deal with Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton, with Renaissance magic and Renaissance costume, with books and book illustration, art collecting and mythography.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780719081699
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0719081696
Udg. Dato:
31 okt 2013
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
157mm
Højde:
234mm
Forlag:
Manchester University Press
Oplagsdato:
31 okt 2013
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