Becoming criminal : transversal performance and cultural dissidence in early modern England / Bryan Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Bryan (Bryan Randolph)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Criminals in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Crime--England--History--16th century.

Crime.

Crime--England--History--17th century.

Romanies in literature.

Crime in literature.

England--Social conditions--16th century.

England.

England--Social conditions--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

He maps the effects of the public theater's transformative force of transversality, such as through the criminality represented by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, on both Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the scholarship devoted to it.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE State Power, Cultural Dissidence, Transversal Power

CHAPTER TWO Becoming Gypsy, Criminal Culture, Becoming Transversal

CHAPTER THREE Communal Departure, Criminal Language, Dissident Consolidation

CHAPTER FOUR Social Spatialization, Criminal Praxis, Transversal Movement

CHAPTER FIVE Antitheatrical Discourse, Transversal Theater, Criminal Intervention

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7675-3

OCLC:

559302741