The theatre of civilized excess: new perspectives on Jacobean tragedy
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Main Author: Müller-Wood, Anja (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Rodopi 2007
Series:Costerus new ser., v. 169
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-217) and index
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Relocating the Stage: Reflections on Early Modern Theatre Culture; 2 "All the Ill Man Can Invent": John Webster and His Duchess; 3 Look Who's Talking (Plainly): Dangerous Eloquence in The Atheist's Tragedy; 4 Memory, Mimesis and the Material: Chapman's Scene of Writing (The Law); 5 Theatrical Excess, Critical Practice: Women Beware Women and the Shaping of a Bourgeois Aesthetic; Bibliography; Index
Jacobean 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 so
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
ISBN:142948098X
904202190X
9401204306
9781429480987
9789042021907
9789401204309

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