Format:
Online-Ressource (VI, 239 S.)
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
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. Björn Quiring, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110343946
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110292299
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe "If then the world a theatre present..." Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2014 ISBN 3110292297
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110292299
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110343940
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Drama
;
Welttheater
;
Geschichte 1500-1700
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110343939
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