04205nam 2200637Ia 450 991045159200332120200520144314.094-012-0430-61-4294-8098-X10.1163/9789401204309(CKB)1000000000475348(EBL)556484(OCoLC)166142905(SSID)ssj0000257781(PQKBManifestationID)12112370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257781(PQKBWorkID)10253584(PQKB)11744094(MiAaPQ)EBC556484(OCoLC)166142905(OCoLC)170958064(OCoLC)607848692(OCoLC)714567255(OCoLC)764536341(OCoLC)842972615(OCoLC)961522879(OCoLC)962566206(OCoLC)966214873(OCoLC)974520933(OCoLC)974577236(OCoLC)988435908(OCoLC)992024899(nllekb)BRILL9789401204309(Au-PeEL)EBL556484(CaPaEBR)ebr10380430(EXLCZ)99100000000047534820070511d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe theatre of civilized excess[electronic resource] new perspectives on Jacobean tragedy /Anja Müller-WoodAmsterdam ;New York, NY Rodopi20071 online resource (224 p.)Costerus,0165-9618 ;new ser., v. 169Includes bibliographical references and index.90-420-2190-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-217) and index.Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- RELOCATING THE STAGE: REFLECTIONS ON EARLYMODERN THEATRE CULTURE -- “ALL THE ILLMAN CAN INVENT”: JOHNWEBSTER AND HIS DUCHESS -- LOOK WHO’S TALKING (PLAINLY): DANGEROUS ELOQUENCE IN THE ATHEIST’S TRAGEDY -- MEMORY, MIMESIS AND THE MATERIAL: CHAPMAN’S SCENE OF WRITING (THE LAW) -- THEATRICAL EXCESS, CRITICAL PRACTICE: WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN AND THE SHAPING OF A BOURGEOIS AESTHETIC -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.Costerus ;new ser., v. 169.English drama (Tragedy)History and criticismEnglish drama17th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600History and criticismElectronic books.English drama (Tragedy)History and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.822.309Müller-Wood Anja1969-991665MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451592003321The theatre of civilized excess2269580UNINA