The touch of the real : essays in early modern culture in honour of Stephen Greenblatt / edited by Philippa Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Philippa.

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

England.

Culture in literature.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Crawley : University of Western Australia Press, 2002.

Contents:

Part 1 Reinventing the Early Modern

Racial Memory and Literary History / Stephen Greenblatt 1

Shakespeare at the Birth of Historicism / Peter Holbrook 22

Shakespeare, Cinema and History: Looking at Richard III / Lee Scott Taylor 37

Historicizing Irony: The Case of Milton and the Restoration / Ron Bedford 64

Humanisms, Old and New / Bob White 84

Part 2 Shaping Identity in Early Modern England

Historicism and the Problem of Renaissance 'Self-Fashioning' / Conal Condren 105

Hatching Fashion: Consumption, Femininity and Family in Early Modern London / Elizabeth Moran 125

Falstaff's Reformation: Virtue in Idleness / Susan Penberthy 143

Part 3 Reorientation in a Changing World

Bellona Britannica: The Discourse of Triumph in Early Modern England / Anthony Miller 159

Disorientation: The Case of Othello / Christopher Wortham 177

'Living in the World': Communication and Culture in Early Modern England / Lloyd Davis 202

Direct Address and the Fourth Wall: The Then and Now of Shakespearean Performance / Geoffrey Borny 221

Epilogue: Shakespeare in Australia 2000 / John Bell 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1876268727

OCLC:

50245102