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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... form in Representations 2 : 61–94 . © 1983 by the Regents of the University of California . Reprinted by permission . Portions of chapter II appeared in David L. Smith , Richard Strier , and David Bevington , The Theatrical City , pp ...
... form in Representations 2 : 61–94 . © 1983 by the Regents of the University of California . Reprinted by permission . Portions of chapter II appeared in David L. Smith , Richard Strier , and David Bevington , The Theatrical City , pp ...
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... FORM AND PRESSURE I. The Reformation of Playing 19 II . A Theatre of Changes 30 III . Anatomies of Playing 41 IV . The Theatre , the City , and the Crown 53 V. From the Stage to the State 66 VI . The Power of Personation 76 VII . The ...
... FORM AND PRESSURE I. The Reformation of Playing 19 II . A Theatre of Changes 30 III . Anatomies of Playing 41 IV . The Theatre , the City , and the Crown 53 V. From the Stage to the State 66 VI . The Power of Personation 76 VII . The ...
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... form in this book , and each has aided me , by example and by admonition , to improve my work and myself ; I am deeply grateful to each of them . David Bevington , Linda Charnes , and Mary Beth Rose have read the manu- script with care ...
... form in this book , and each has aided me , by example and by admonition , to improve my work and myself ; I am deeply grateful to each of them . David Bevington , Linda Charnes , and Mary Beth Rose have read the manu- script with care ...
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... forms of Marxism , and new histori- cism or cultural poetics have been engaged in redrawing the bound- aries and restructuring the content of English Renaissance studies— and literary studies , more generally — during the past decade ...
... forms of Marxism , and new histori- cism or cultural poetics have been engaged in redrawing the bound- aries and restructuring the content of English Renaissance studies— and literary studies , more generally — during the past decade ...
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... forms and rhetorical strategies , literary theory has come to exert an unprecedented extra - disciplinary influence in the humanities and interpretive social sciences . For example , in a discus- sion of recent controversies in the ...
... forms and rhetorical strategies , literary theory has come to exert an unprecedented extra - disciplinary influence in the humanities and interpretive social sciences . For example , in a discus- sion of recent controversies in the ...
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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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