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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... possible for me to bring this and other projects to completion while chairing my department thanks to the research assistance of Ben Bertram , Susan Light , and Karen Raber , the administrative assistance of Barbara Saxon , and the ...
... possible for me to bring this and other projects to completion while chairing my department thanks to the research assistance of Ben Bertram , Susan Light , and Karen Raber , the administrative assistance of Barbara Saxon , and the ...
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... possible and actualized . The terms in which the problematic of ideology and resistance came to be posed in Renaissance studies were those of an opposition between subversion and containment . These terms , which appear to be residues ...
... possible and actualized . The terms in which the problematic of ideology and resistance came to be posed in Renaissance studies were those of an opposition between subversion and containment . These terms , which appear to be residues ...
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... possible , somewhat similar to the way in which the state relies on the institutional integration of power relationships . ( 95-96 ) This subtle , flexible , and dynamic model of power relations may ac- commodate local instances of a ...
... possible , somewhat similar to the way in which the state relies on the institutional integration of power relationships . ( 95-96 ) This subtle , flexible , and dynamic model of power relations may ac- commodate local instances of a ...
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... possible , except by a process of selection and exclusion of the sort that we perform every time we produce a particular " reading " of the text . Within the context of the containment / subversion debate in En- glish Renaissance ...
... possible , except by a process of selection and exclusion of the sort that we perform every time we produce a particular " reading " of the text . Within the context of the containment / subversion debate in En- glish Renaissance ...
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... possible for us to experience facets of our own subjection at shifting internal distances — to read , as in a refracted light , one frag- ment of our ideological inscription by means of another . A reflexive knowledge so partial and ...
... possible for us to experience facets of our own subjection at shifting internal distances — to read , as in a refracted light , one frag- ment of our ideological inscription by means of another . A reflexive knowledge so partial and ...
Contenido
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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