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Strangeness in Jacobean drama / Callan Davies.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR671 .D38 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Callan, 1990- author.
- Series:
- Studies in performance and early modern drama
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Theater--England--History--17th century.
- Theater.
- English literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Other (Philosophy) in literature.
- Philosophy in literature.
- English literature--Early modern.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 203 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Summary:
- Callan Davies presents "strangeness" as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama-one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. 0Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as "Shakespeare's late plays," "tragicomedy," or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Speech: Strange Doctrines in Macbeth, The Roaring Girl, and The White Devil
- Chapter 2: Rhetoric: Rhetorical Strangeness
- Chapter 3: Technology: Strange Special Effects in The Tempest and The Alchemist
- Chapter 4: Philosophy: Desire, Scepticism, and Spectacle in A King and No King and the Age plays
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0367500310
- 9780367500313
- OCLC:
- 1147901472
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