Book Details

Renais Sance Drama : Volume 41

By JEFFREY (Contributor), WILLIAM N. WEST (Contributor)

Price : ~~$96.95~~  $77.56
ISBN : 9780226158112
Page : 464
Year of Publication : 2014    Edition : 1
Publisher : UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Subject : LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS

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Description :

Renaissance Drama explores the variety of theatrical and performance traditions and practices in early modern Europe and intersecting cultures. Volume 41 features articles that extend our understanding of early modern playing, theater history, and dramatic texts and interpretation, encouraging innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to these traditions, examining familiar works, and revisiting well-known texts from fresh perspectives.

William N. West is associate professor in English and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University.

Content :

Articles

The Representation Market of Early Modern England

The Mechanics of Virtue:Quicksilver's "Repentance," The test of the Audience, and Social Change in Eastward Ho

My Exion Is Entered:Anatomy, Costume, and Theatrical Knowledge in 2 Henry IV

Wandering Eyes:Jonson's Catiline and the Problem of Sight

Richard III's Baby Teeth

Writing Woodstock:The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare's Dramatics Method

Horation's Philosophy in Hamlet

Toward an Ethical Polity:Service and the Tragic Community in Timon of Athrns

Reading Materiality: The Literary Critical Treatment of Physical Texts

Notes of Contributors