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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... social , political , and historical criticism in literary studies is characterized by an anti- reflectionist ... social group . In recent years , this vexed but indispensable term has in its broadest sense come to be associated with the ...
... social , political , and historical criticism in literary studies is characterized by an anti- reflectionist ... social group . In recent years , this vexed but indispensable term has in its broadest sense come to be associated with the ...
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... social reality and in accommodating their writers , performers , readers , and audiences to multiple and shifting positions within the world that they themselves both constitute and inhabit . In After the New Criticism , Frank ...
... social reality and in accommodating their writers , performers , readers , and audiences to multiple and shifting positions within the world that they themselves both constitute and inhabit . In After the New Criticism , Frank ...
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... social sciences . For example , in a discus- sion of recent controversies in the discipline of history , Lynn Hunt defines history as " an ongoing tension between stories that have been told and stories that might be told . In this ...
... social sciences . For example , in a discus- sion of recent controversies in the discipline of history , Lynn Hunt defines history as " an ongoing tension between stories that have been told and stories that might be told . In this ...
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... social sciences is now to emphasize that a complex dynamic of mu- tual constitution and transformation characterizes the relationship between the universe of discourse and material life . On the one hand , the social is understood to be ...
... social sciences is now to emphasize that a complex dynamic of mu- tual constitution and transformation characterizes the relationship between the universe of discourse and material life . On the one hand , the social is understood to be ...
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... social and material embedding , of all modes of writing — including not only the texts that critics study but also the texts in which we study them ; thus , I also mean to suggest the historical , social , and material embedding of all ...
... social and material embedding , of all modes of writing — including not only the texts that critics study but also the texts in which we study them ; thus , I also mean to suggest the historical , social , and material embedding of all ...
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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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