The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan TheatreUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 - Počet stran: 227 Part of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, Louis Montrose's The Purpose of Playing refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. Montrose first locates the public and professional theater within the ideological and material framework of Elizabethan culture. He considers the role of the professional theater and theatricality in the cultural transformation that was concurrent with religious and socio-political change, and then concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state. Drawing dramatic examples from the genres of tragedy and history, Montrose finally focuses his cultural-historical perspective on A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Purpose of Playing elegantly demonstrates how language and literary imagination shape cultural value, belief, and understanding; social distinction and interaction; and political control and contestation. |
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... English - History and criticism . 8. Power ( Social sciences ) in literature . I. Title . PR3095.M66 792'.0942'09031 - dc20 1996 95-35335 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National ...
... English - History and criticism . 8. Power ( Social sciences ) in literature . I. Title . PR3095.M66 792'.0942'09031 - dc20 1996 95-35335 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National ...
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... English Renaissance studies— and literary studies , more generally — during the past decade and a half . 1 The critical forces that I have here conveniently if simplistically labelled have in common a concern at once to affirm and to ...
... English Renaissance studies— and literary studies , more generally — during the past decade and a half . 1 The critical forces that I have here conveniently if simplistically labelled have in common a concern at once to affirm and to ...
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... English Institute , 1987-88 , ed . Jonathan Arac and Barbara Johnson ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991 ) , 91-107 ; quotation from 103. Among the early and influential textualist critiques of anthro- pology were Roy ...
... English Institute , 1987-88 , ed . Jonathan Arac and Barbara Johnson ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991 ) , 91-107 ; quotation from 103. Among the early and influential textualist critiques of anthro- pology were Roy ...
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... English Renaissance literary and dramatic studies during the past decade . At the center of much critical practice and polemic has been the nature and scope of the agency available to subjects of the early modern state , and the degree ...
... English Renaissance literary and dramatic studies during the past decade . At the center of much critical practice and polemic has been the nature and scope of the agency available to subjects of the early modern state , and the degree ...
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... English Renaissance literary studies in the form of containment / subversion . However , whether the focus of our analysis is upon late sixteenth- century England or late twentieth - century America , we should resist the inevitably ...
... English Renaissance literary studies in the form of containment / subversion . However , whether the focus of our analysis is upon late sixteenth- century England or late twentieth - century America , we should resist the inevitably ...
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The Reformation of Playing | 19 |
A Theatre of Changes | 30 |
Anatomies of Playing | 41 |
The Theatre the City and the Crowns | 53 |
From the Stage to the State | 66 |
The Power of Personation | 76 |
The CrossPurposes of Playing | 99 |
THE SHAPING FANTASIES OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 107 |
The Discord of This Concord | 109 |
Stories of the Night | 124 |
The Imperial Votaress | 151 |
Bottoms Dream | 179 |
A Kingdom of Shadows | 206 |
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