Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body

Explains the presence of theatre in John Milton and its centrality to his politics and poetryTheatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetoric...

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1. Verfasser: Prawdzik, Brendan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
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Zusammenfassung:Explains the presence of theatre in John Milton and its centrality to his politics and poetryTheatrical Milton brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre. Political and theological cultures in seventeenth-century England developed a treasury of representational resources in order to stage-to satirize and, above all, to de-legitimate-rhetors of politics, religion, and print. At the core of Milton's works is a contradictory relation to theatre that has neither been explained nor properly explored. This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.Key FeaturesFocuses on rhetoric and representation while employing thick historical contextualization and selected theoryExamines Milton's theatricality in the contexts of rhetorical culture, gender and anti-theatricality, popular literatures of the early 1640s, paradigms of worship, optics and horticulture, and the Quaker body in print and visual cultureDemonstrates how theatricality cuts across Milton's genres
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (264 pages) 15 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9781474421027