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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825608703321

Titolo

Selfhood on the early modern English stage / / edited by Pauline Blanc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

ISBN

1-282-41462-3

9786612414626

1-4438-1562-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlancPauline

Disciplina

792.0942

Soggetti

Self in literature

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Essays presented ... the international two-day colloquium ... at the University of Jean Moulin-Lyon 3 in April 2006"--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Selfhood in its emergent stages -- pt. 2. Selfhood : a cultural and literary construct -- pt. 3. Selfhood and Hamlet -- pt. 4. Selfhood and signature -- pt. 5. Selfhood and royal affiliation.

Sommario/riassunto

The twelve essays in Selfhood on the Early Modern English Stage analyse the influences that shaped the fictional constructs that inhabited the drama of the early modern period. The contributors, all specialists in the field working in France and England, offer a wide spectrum of views and discuss a variety of dramatic texts ranging from late medieval cycle plays and interludes of the Tudor period, to plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Tourneur and Jonson. The early modern stage self emerges out o...