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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... relationship be- tween state and subject was constructed and contested . Part One of The Purpose of Playing presents an extended discussion of the place of the public and professional theatre within the ideological and mate- rial ...
... relationship be- tween state and subject was constructed and contested . Part One of The Purpose of Playing presents an extended discussion of the place of the public and professional theatre within the ideological and mate- rial ...
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... relationship between the popular Elizabethan theatre and the Elizabethan state . In Parts One and Two of The Purpose of Playing , I have intention- ally sought a contrast of critical perspective , rhetorical texture , and analytical ...
... relationship between the popular Elizabethan theatre and the Elizabethan state . In Parts One and Two of The Purpose of Playing , I have intention- ally sought a contrast of critical perspective , rhetorical texture , and analytical ...
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... relationship to other genres and modes of writing , and to resituate discursive practices in relationship to the social and political institutions and processes of early modern England . It is my conviction that by focusing the ...
... relationship to other genres and modes of writing , and to resituate discursive practices in relationship to the social and political institutions and processes of early modern England . It is my conviction that by focusing the ...
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... relationship of such work to feminist and cultural materialist projects , see my longer study : " New Historicisms , " in Redraw- ing the Boundaries : The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies , ed . Stephen Greenblatt ...
... relationship of such work to feminist and cultural materialist projects , see my longer study : " New Historicisms , " in Redraw- ing the Boundaries : The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies , ed . Stephen Greenblatt ...
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... relationship between the universe of discourse and material life . On the one hand , the social is understood to be constructed in discourse , and on the other , language - use is understood to be always and necessarily dialog- ical ...
... relationship between the universe of discourse and material life . On the one hand , the social is understood to be constructed in discourse , and on the other , language - use is understood to be always and necessarily dialog- ical ...
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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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