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Spectacular performances : essays on theatre, imagery, books and selves in early modern England / Stephen Orgel.
LIBRA PN2589 .O74 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orgel, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--England--History--16th century.
- Theater.
- Illustration of books.
- History.
- Art and literature.
- Performing arts.
- England.
- Theater--England--History--17th century.
- Performing arts--England--History--16th century.
- Performing arts--England--History--17th century.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Art and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Art and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Illustration of books--England--History.
- England--Civilization--16th century.
- Civilization.
- England--Civilization--17th century.
- England--Social life and customs--16th century.
- Manners and customs.
- England--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan [U.S. distributor], 2011.
- Summary:
- "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 concept 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 make 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."--Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I am Richard II
- Seeing through costume
- Jonson and the Amazons
- Othello and the end of comedy
- King Lear and the art of forgetting
- The case for Comus
- Completing Hamlet
- Open secrets
- Textual icons : reading early modern illustrations
- Not his picture but his book
- Plagiarism revisited
- Devils incarnate
- Ganymede Agonistes.
- Notes:
- Consists in part of previously published material.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780719081682
- 0719081688
- OCLC:
- 767732464
- Publisher Number:
- 99947524767
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