UID:
almahu_9949386567302882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 203 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781000174298
,
1000174298
,
9781000174311
,
100017431X
,
9781003048923
,
1003048927
,
9781000174304
,
1000174301
Series Statement:
Studies in performance and early modern drama
Content:
Callan Davies presents strangeness as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama--one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as Shakespeare's late plays, tragicomedy, or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.
Note:
Speech : strange doctrines in The Dutch courtesan, Macbeth, The roaring girl, and The white devil -- Rhetoric : rhetorical strangeness -- Technology : strange special effects in The tempest and The alchemist -- Philosophy : desire, scepticism, and spectacle in A king and no king and the Age plays.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367500310
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367500313
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003048923
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003048923
