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Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / / Chloe Porter



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Autore: Porter Chloe Visualizza persona
Titolo: Making and unmaking in early modern English drama : spectators, aesthetics and incompletion / / Chloe Porter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 822.309
Soggetto topico: English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism
Art and literature - England - History - 16th century
Art and literature - England - History - 17th century
Material culture in literature - History - 16th century
Material culture in literature - History - 17th century
Visual perception in literature
Art in literature
Unfinished works of art
Iconoclasm in literature
Literature and literary studies
Literature: history and criticism / Literary studies: plays and playwrights
LITERARY CRITICISM - Drama
Biography, Literature & Literary studies - Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Soggetto non controllato: literature
plays and playwrights
Apelles
Brazen head
Early Modern English
Early modern period
England
Iconoclasm
Visual arts
Visual culture
William Shakespeare
Persona (resp. second.): FrostMatthew
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.
Sommario/riassunto: Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'? And what did the terms 'finished' or 'incomplete' mean for dramatists and their audiences in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly. Illustrated with examples from across visual and material culture, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Plays are explored as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual culture, alongside a diverse range of contexts and themes, including iconoclasm, painting, sculpture, clothing and jewellery, automata and invisibility. Asking what it meant for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to 'begin' or 'end' a literary or visual work, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern English drama, literature, visual culture and history.
Titolo autorizzato: Making and unmaking in early modern English drama  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-0328-1
1-5261-0327-3
1-84779-891-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910132510403321
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