The pursuit of style in early modern drama: forms of talk on the London stage

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 ev...

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Main Author: Hunter, Matthew 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
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Summary: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
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Introduction: Speaking of style -- Stage talk -- Love talk -- Court talk -- Tough talk -- Plain talk -- Afterword: speaking of judgement
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 259 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009042345
DOI:10.1017/9781009042345

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