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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... my critical practice in the rest of the book . This metacritical essay syn- thesizes my response to , and position within , the theoretical and methodological debates of recent literary and cultural studies . The xii To the Reader.
... my critical practice in the rest of the book . This metacritical essay syn- thesizes my response to , and position within , the theoretical and methodological debates of recent literary and cultural studies . The xii To the Reader.
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... studies . The Purpose of Playing is intended as a contribution to the ongoing refigu- ration of the sociocultural field within which now - canonical Renais- sance literary and dramatic works were originally produced . I am con- cerned ...
... studies . The Purpose of Playing is intended as a contribution to the ongoing refigu- ration of the sociocultural field within which now - canonical Renais- sance literary and dramatic works were originally produced . I am con- cerned ...
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... 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 problema- tize the ...
... 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 problema- tize the ...
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... studies . The theoretical field of poststructuralism is inhabited by a multiplicity of unstable , variously conjoined and conflicting discourses . Among the principles that some of them share , those of concern to me here are a ...
... studies . The theoretical field of poststructuralism is inhabited by a multiplicity of unstable , variously conjoined and conflicting discourses . Among the principles that some of them share , those of concern to me here are a ...
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... studies of which J. Hillis Miller and others have com- plained the turn from " language as such ... toward history , culture , society , politics , institutions " —might be better construed as a broad- ening and deepening of our central ...
... studies of which J. Hillis Miller and others have com- plained the turn from " language as such ... toward history , culture , society , politics , institutions " —might be better construed as a broad- ening and deepening of our central ...
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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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