The Pursuit Of Style In Early Modern Drama
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The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama
Author | : Matthew Hunter |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781316517468 |
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Matthew Hunter shows how early modern plays modeled diverse styles of talk for audiences inhabiting a newly public world.
The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama
Author | : Matthew Hunter |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009050784 |
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The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama examines how early modern plays celebrated the power of different styles of talk to create dynamic forms of public address. Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, London expanded into an uncomfortably public city where everyone was a stranger to everyone else. The relentless anonymity of urban life spurred dreams of its opposite: of being a somebody rather than a nobody, of being the object of public attention rather than its subject. Drama gave life to this fantasy. Presented by strangers and to strangers, early modern plays codified different styles of talk as different forms of public sociability. Then, as now, to speak of style was to speak of a fantasy of public address. Offering fresh insight for scholars of literature and drama, Matthew Hunter reveals how this fantasy – which still holds us in its thrall – played out on the early modern stage.
Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama
Author | : Jeremy Lopez |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781107030572 |
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Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.
Publicity and the Early Modern Stage
Author | : Allison K. Deutermann,Matthew Hunter,Musa Gurnis |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030523329 |
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What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated with playing—not just actors and authors, but playgoers, characters, and the extraordinary local figures adjunct to playhouse productions—introduced new ways of thinking about the function and meaning of fame in the period; about the networks of communication through which it spread; and about theatrical publics. Drawing on the insights of Habermasean public sphere theory and on the interdisciplinary field of celebrity studies, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage introduces a new and comprehensive look at early modern theories and experiences of publicity.
Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama
Author | : James M. Bromley |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198867821 |
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This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body. Practices of extravagant dress destabilized distinctions between able-bodied and disabled, human and non-human, and the past and present, distinctions that structure normative ways of thinking about sexuality. In city comedies by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Dekker, extravagantly dressed male characters imagine alternatives to the prevailing modes of subjectivity, sociability, and eroticism in early modern London. While these characters are situated in hostile narrative and historical contexts, this book draws on recent work on disability, materiality, and queer temporality to rethink their relationship to those contexts in order to access the world-making possibilities of early modern queer style. In their rich representations of life in London around the turn of the seventeenth century, these plays not only were, but also remain, uniquely sensitive to the intersection of sexuality, urbanization, and material culture. The attachments and pleasures of early modern sartorial extravagance they depict can estrange us from the epistemologies that narrow current thinking about sexuality's relationship to authenticity, pedagogy, interiority, and privacy.
Early Modern Theatricality
Author | : Henry S. Turner |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780199641352 |
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Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.
Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama
Author | : Jonathan Gil Harris,Natasha Korda |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2006-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521032091 |
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This collection of essays explores the material, economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. The essays in this volume, written by a team of distinguished scholars in the field, offer valuable insights and historical evidence concerning the forms of production, circulation and exchange that brought such diverse properties as sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects, and even false beards onto the stage.
Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama
Author | : Ariane M. Balizet |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317961949 |
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In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of "the domestic," which encompassed the domus as well as sex, parenthood, household order, the relationship between home and state, and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood. The theatrical relation between blood and home is far more intricate than the idealized language of the familial bloodline; the home was itself a bloody place, with domestic bloodstains signifying a range of experiences including religious worship, sex, murder, birth, healing, and holy justice. Focusing on four bleeding figures—the Bleeding Bride, Bleeding Husband, Bleeding Child, and Bleeding Patient—the author argues that the household blood of the early modern stage not only expressed the violence and conflict occasioned by domestic ideology, but also established the home as a site that alternately reified and challenged patriarchal authority.