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Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater - Couverture rigide

Morrison, Sara

 
9781409449003: Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1409449009 ISBN 13 : 9781409449003
Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic description. At the same time, it contributes to a growing understanding of the relationship between the material conditions of theater and interpretations of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The chapters in this collection are organized into five thematic parts emphasizing the conventions of theater that compel us to consider bodies as both literally present and figuratively represented through languge. The first part addresses the dramatic blazon as used within the conventions of courtly love. Examining the classical roots of the Petrarchan blazon, the next part explores the violent eroticism of a poetic technique rooted in Ovidian notions of metamorphosis. With similar attention paid to brutality, the third part analyzes the representation of blazonic dismemberment on stage and screen. Figurative battles become real in the fourth part, which addresses the frequent blazons surfacing in historical and political plays. The final part moves to the role of audience, analyzing the role of the observer in containing the identity of the blazoned woman as well as her attempts to resist becoming an objectified spectacle.

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À propos de l'auteur

Deborah Uman is Associate Professor of English at St. John Fisher College, USA. Sara Morrison is Assistant Professor of English at William Jewell College, USA.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1409449009
ISBN 13 
9781409449003
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Éditeur
Uman Deborah
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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