UID:
edocfu_9958354280002883
Format:
1 online resource(vi,240p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110343939
Series Statement:
Pluralisierung & Autorität; 32
Content:
To picture the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity. In early modernity, however, the theatrum mundi became a particularly prominent metaphor, especially in England where it was used by playwrights as well as by theologians opposed to the professional theatre. This volume examines how and why the uses of the metaphor proliferated at that time, drawing on plays, pamphlets, other textual sources as well as on images.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction /
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Having a Good Time at the Theatre of the World: Amusement, Antitheatricality and the Calvinist Use of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England /
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"Out, out, brief candle": Shakespeare and the Theatrum Mundi of Hospitality /
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Portraits of Hydra: Theatre and the Many-Headed Multitude /
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"They Have Their Exits and Their Entrances" On Two Basic Operations in the Theatrum Mundi /
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"Look on the Tragic Loading of this Bed": Performing Community and its Other in Shakespeare’s Othello /
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A Narrow Thing Within One Word The Foreclosure of Nature in Post-Shakespearian Worlds and Times /
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Doubtful Visibilities The Theatrum Mundi of the German Baroque Trauerspiel /
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Metaphysical Skepticism, Incertitude and the Dissolution of the Theatrum Mundi /
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Theatrum Mundi and the Politics of Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century Drama /
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The End of a Trope for the World /
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110292299
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110343946
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110343939
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343939
