Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion - Couverture rigide

Porter, Chloe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719084970 ISBN 13 : 9780719084973

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chloe Porter is Lecturer in English Literature 1500-1700 at the University of Sussex

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719084970
• ISBN 13: 9780719084973
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible