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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... precisely this shift of emphasis from canonicity and consensus to diversity and contestation that has been the focus of the national debate about the direction of the humanities — a debate that has been waged on the campuses and on the ...
... precisely this shift of emphasis from canonicity and consensus to diversity and contestation that has been the focus of the national debate about the direction of the humanities — a debate that has been waged on the campuses and on the ...
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... precisely as a con- dition and consequence of their canonicity . If , for example , I charac- terize Hamlet as a " complex " text , I am not reverting to an aesthet- ics of immanence , unity , and closure ; rather , I am describing the ...
... precisely as a con- dition and consequence of their canonicity . If , for example , I charac- terize Hamlet as a " complex " text , I am not reverting to an aesthet- ics of immanence , unity , and closure ; rather , I am describing the ...
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... precisely in order to emphasize that individuals and the very concept of the individual are historically constituted in language and society . Although it continues to thrive in the mass media , in the rhetoric of politicians , and in ...
... precisely in order to emphasize that individuals and the very concept of the individual are historically constituted in language and society . Although it continues to thrive in the mass media , in the rhetoric of politicians , and in ...
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... precisely when they are experi- enced by the subject as multiple , heterogeneous , and even contradic- tory in their imperatives . Such a concept of agency is articulated clearly and concisely by Paul Smith : The symbolic realm , the ...
... precisely when they are experi- enced by the subject as multiple , heterogeneous , and even contradic- tory in their imperatives . Such a concept of agency is articulated clearly and concisely by Paul Smith : The symbolic realm , 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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