Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage:
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Main Author: Dickson, Vernon Guy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013
Series:Studies in performance and early modern drama
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 "Emulation hath a thousand sons": Emulative Rhetorics in Renaissance England; 2 "A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant"; 3 "Suit the action to the word"; 4 "I am what you should be"; 5 "Act[ing] an orators part"; Afterword: Emulation's "thousand sons" and Roman Influence: Conclusions and Implications; Bibliography; Index
Using the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics, this study analyzes the conflicted uses of emulation in the period. The author also reassesses and nuances our understanding of the roles and significance of emulation in the Renaissance. Among the individual texts examined here are Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Jonson's Catiline, and Massinger's The Roman Actor
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
ISBN:9781409469292
1409469298
1306070031
9781306070034

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