LEADER 04172nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910778153803321 005 20230721031607.0 010 $a94-012-0430-6 010 $a1-4294-8098-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401204309 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475348 035 $a(EBL)556484 035 $a(OCoLC)166142905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000257781 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12112370 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257781 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10253584 035 $a(PQKB)11744094 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556484 035 $a(OCoLC)166142905$z(OCoLC)170958064$z(OCoLC)607848692$z(OCoLC)714567255$z(OCoLC)764536341$z(OCoLC)842972615$z(OCoLC)961522879$z(OCoLC)962566206$z(OCoLC)966214873$z(OCoLC)974520933$z(OCoLC)974577236$z(OCoLC)988435908$z(OCoLC)992024899 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401204309 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556484 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380430 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475348 100 $a20070511d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe theatre of civilized excess$b[electronic resource] $enew perspectives on Jacobean tragedy /$fAnja Mu?ller-Wood 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aCosterus,$x0165-9618 ;$vnew ser., v. 169 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 311 $a90-420-2190-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 194-217) and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aJacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage?s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion ? their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror ? testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners? attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging. 410 0$aCosterus ;$vnew ser., v. 169. 606 $aEnglish drama (Tragedy)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish drama (Tragedy)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a822.309 700 $aMu?ller-Wood$b Anja$f1969-$01566350 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778153803321 996 $aThe theatre of civilized excess$93836786 997 $aUNINA