LEADER 04230nam 2200637 450 001 9910459721003321 005 20210422233728.0 010 $a3-11-038367-5 010 $a3-11-034393-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110343939 035 $a(CKB)3710000000229164 035 $a(EBL)1575452 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001679990 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16495855 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001679990 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15028144 035 $a(PQKB)11097137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1575452 035 $a(DE-B1597)246069 035 $a(OCoLC)890071031 035 $a(OCoLC)979912339 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110343939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1575452 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11010273 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL805601 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000229164 100 $a20150213h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$a"If then the world a theatre present ..." $erevisions of the Theatrum Mundi metaphor in Early Modern England /$fedited by Bjo?rn Quiring 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 225 1 $aPluralisierung & Autorita?t,$x2076-8281 ;$vBand 32 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-029229-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction /$rQuiring, Björn --$tHaving a Good Time at the Theatre of the World: Amusement, Antitheatricality and the Calvinist Use of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England /$rRuge, Enno --$t"Out, out, brief candle": Shakespeare and the Theatrum Mundi of Hospitality /$rLupton, Julia Reinhard --$tPortraits of Hydra: Theatre and the Many-Headed Multitude /$rHöfele, Andreas --$t"They Have Their Exits and Their Entrances" On Two Basic Operations in the Theatrum Mundi /$rWild, Christopher --$t"Look on the Tragic Loading of this Bed": Performing Community and its Other in Shakespeare's Othello /$rQuiring, Björn --$tA Narrow Thing Within One Word The Foreclosure of Nature in Post-Shakespearian Worlds and Times /$rHaverkamp, Anselm --$tDoubtful Visibilities The Theatrum Mundi of the German Baroque Trauerspiel /$rNewman, Jane O. --$tMetaphysical Skepticism, Incertitude and the Dissolution of the Theatrum Mundi /$rSierhuis, Freya --$tTheatrum Mundi and the Politics of Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century Drama /$rSmith, Nigel --$tThe End of a Trope for the World /$rHarries, Martin 330 $aTo metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England. Old and new applications of the "theatrum mundi" topos pervaded discourses, often allegorizing the deceitfulness and impermanence of this world as well as the futility of earthly strife. It was frequently woven into arguments against worldly amusements such as the stage: Commercial theatre was declared an undesirable competitor of God's well-ordered world drama. Early modern dramatists often reacted to this development by appropriating the metaphor, and in an ingenious twist, some playwrights even appropriated its anti-theatrical impetus: Early modern theatre seemed to discover a denial of its own theatricality at its very core. Drama was found to succeed best when it staged itself as a great unmasking. To investigate the reasons and effects of these developments, the anthology examines the metaphorical uses of theatre in plays, pamphlets, epics, treatises, legal proclamations and other sources. 410 0$aPluralisierung & Autorita?t ;$vBand 32. 606 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792.094209031 686 $aHK 1091$2rvk 702 $aQuiring$b Bjo?rn 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459721003321 996 $a"If then the world a theatre present ..."$92447382 997 $aUNINA