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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... specific reference to the intense debate and critique provoked by that earlier position , he writes of a turn in his thinking : I had tried to organize the mixed motives of Tudor and Stuart culture under the rubric power , but that term ...
... specific reference to the intense debate and critique provoked by that earlier position , he writes of a turn in his thinking : I had tried to organize the mixed motives of Tudor and Stuart culture under the rubric power , but that term ...
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... specific and changing conjunctures . Thus , for example , during the 1940s and 1950s , literary - historical scholarship was much concerned to demonstrate the ideological orthodoxy of such canonical authors as Shakespeare . In the ...
... specific and changing conjunctures . Thus , for example , during the 1940s and 1950s , literary - historical scholarship was much concerned to demonstrate the ideological orthodoxy of such canonical authors as Shakespeare . In the ...
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... specific and effective dominance " ( 121 ) , Williams clarifies the existence , at any point in time , of residual and emergent , oppositional and alternative values , meanings , and prac- tices . The shifting conjunctures of such ...
... specific and effective dominance " ( 121 ) , Williams clarifies the existence , at any point in time , of residual and emergent , oppositional and alternative values , meanings , and prac- tices . The shifting conjunctures of such ...
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... specific resources , conventions , and modes of production and distribution of the representational forms that they employ . By representing ideology as a dynamic , agonistic , and temporal process — a ceaseless contest among dominant ...
... specific resources , conventions , and modes of production and distribution of the representational forms that they employ . By representing ideology as a dynamic , agonistic , and temporal process — a ceaseless contest among dominant ...
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... specific historical context , as expressed in the interested action of the historical agents . 16 16. See , respectively : Anthony Giddens , Central Problems in Social Theory : Action , Structure , and Contradiction in Social Analysis ...
... specific historical context , as expressed in the interested action of the historical agents . 16 16. See , respectively : Anthony Giddens , Central Problems in Social Theory : Action , Structure , and Contradiction in Social Analysis ...
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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