The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan TheatreUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 - 227 páginas Part of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, Louis Montrose's The Purpose of Playing refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. Montrose first locates the public and professional theater within the ideological and material framework of Elizabethan culture. He considers the role of the professional theater and theatricality in the cultural transformation that was concurrent with religious and socio-political change, and then concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state. Drawing dramatic examples from the genres of tragedy and history, Montrose finally focuses his cultural-historical perspective on A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Purpose of Playing elegantly demonstrates how language and literary imagination shape cultural value, belief, and understanding; social distinction and interaction; and political control and contestation. |
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... publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI Z39.48-1984 . for Caroline , in the Lu - Feng spirit ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
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... material that has taken final form in this book , and each has aided me , by example and by admonition , to improve my work and myself ; I am deeply grateful to each of them . David Bevington , Linda Charnes , and Mary Beth Rose have ...
... material that has taken final form in this book , and each has aided me , by example and by admonition , to improve my work and myself ; I am deeply grateful to each of them . David Bevington , Linda Charnes , and Mary Beth Rose have ...
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... material domains . The prevailing tendency across the humanities and interpretive social sciences is now to emphasize that a complex dynamic of mu- tual constitution and transformation characterizes the relationship between the universe ...
... material domains . The prevailing tendency across the humanities and interpretive social sciences is now to emphasize that a complex dynamic of mu- tual constitution and transformation characterizes the relationship between the universe ...
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... material embedding , of all modes of writing — including not only the texts that critics study but also the texts in which we study them ; thus , I also mean to suggest the historical , social , and material embedding of all modes of ...
... material embedding , of all modes of writing — including not only the texts that critics study but also the texts in which we study them ; thus , I also mean to suggest the historical , social , and material embedding of all modes of ...
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... material needs and interests ; or , as a collection of inert dis- cursive records of " real events " ; or , as the superstructural reflection produced by a determining economic base . 10 Recent theories of tex- tuality have argued ...
... material needs and interests ; or , as a collection of inert dis- cursive records of " real events " ; or , as the superstructural reflection produced by a determining economic base . 10 Recent theories of tex- tuality have argued ...
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The Reformation of Playing | 19 |
A Theatre of Changes | 30 |
Anatomies of Playing | 41 |
The Theatre the City and the Crowns | 53 |
From the Stage to the State | 66 |
The Power of Personation | 76 |
The CrossPurposes of Playing | 99 |
THE SHAPING FANTASIES OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 107 |
The Discord of This Concord | 109 |
Stories of the Night | 124 |
The Imperial Votaress | 151 |
Bottoms Dream | 179 |
A Kingdom of Shadows | 206 |
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