Spectacular Performances

Name: Spectacular Performances
Brand: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780719081699
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Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England

Автор: Stephen Orgel

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jon...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Stephen Orgel

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2013

страници

304

EAN

9780719081699

ISBN

0719081696

Enbook ID

04648437

Издател

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

446

Размери

157 x 234 x 16

Пълно описание

Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help create the author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the word, be illustrated at all? What conventions connect image to text, and what impulses generated the great art collections of the early seventeenth century? In this richly illustrated collection on theatre, books, art and personal style, the eminent literary critic and cultural historian Stephen Orgel addresses himself to such questions in order to reflect generally on early modern representation and, in the largest sense, early modern performance. As wide-ranging as they are perceptive, the essays deal with Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton, with Renaissance magic and Renaissance costume, with books and book illustration, art collecting and mythography.

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