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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... dominant paradigms in Anglo - American literary criticism . At the same time , these newer modes of criticism have variously reacted against and contributed to the intellectual ferment of the past two decades . This ferment , summed up ...
... dominant paradigms in Anglo - American literary criticism . At the same time , these newer modes of criticism have variously reacted against and contributed to the intellectual ferment of the past two decades . This ferment , summed up ...
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... this figure , taking as a new point of departure a search " not for the components of a product but for the conditions of a practice ” ( 49 , 48 ) . to which contestation of the dominant ideology and its institutions Texts and Histories 7.
... this figure , taking as a new point of departure a search " not for the components of a product but for the conditions of a practice ” ( 49 , 48 ) . to which contestation of the dominant ideology and its institutions Texts and Histories 7.
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... dominant ideology and its institutions was possible and actualized . The terms in which the problematic of ideology and resistance came to be posed in Renaissance studies were those of an opposition between subversion and containment ...
... dominant ideology and its institutions was possible and actualized . The terms in which the problematic of ideology and resistance came to be posed in Renaissance studies were those of an opposition between subversion and containment ...
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... dominant order . The binary logic of subversion / containment produces a closed conceptual structure ; its terms are reciprocally defining and dependent , complementary and complicit . The putatively Foucauldian New Historicist argument ...
... dominant order . The binary logic of subversion / containment produces a closed conceptual structure ; its terms are reciprocally defining and dependent , complementary and complicit . The putatively Foucauldian New Historicist argument ...
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... dominance can never be monolithic , total , and closed , then , on the other hand , revolutionary upheavals occur relatively rarely ; modes and instances of resistance— subversions , contestations , transgressions , appropriations ...
... dominance can never be monolithic , total , and closed , then , on the other hand , revolutionary upheavals occur relatively rarely ; modes and instances of resistance— subversions , contestations , transgressions , appropriations ...
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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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