The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan TheatreUniversity of Chicago Press, 1996 - 227 страници 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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... discourse in which the relationship be- tween state and subject was constructed and contested . Part One of The Purpose of Playing presents an extended discussion of the place of the public and professional theatre within the ...
... discourse in which the relationship be- tween state and subject was constructed and contested . Part One of The Purpose of Playing presents an extended discussion of the place of the public and professional theatre within the ...
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... discourse as recip- rocally related to other modes of cultural , political , and socioeco- nomic organization and ... discourses of human physiology and classical mythology within Shakespeare's play ; in this discussion , my emphasis is ...
... discourse as recip- rocally related to other modes of cultural , political , and socioeco- nomic organization and ... discourses of human physiology and classical mythology within Shakespeare's play ; in this discussion , my emphasis is ...
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... discourses , the dia- 1. For a detailed analysis and critique of the origins , assumptions , and meth- ods of new historicist work , and the relationship of such work to feminist and cultural materialist projects , see my longer study ...
... discourses , the dia- 1. For a detailed analysis and critique of the origins , assumptions , and meth- ods of new historicist work , and the relationship of such work to feminist and cultural materialist projects , see my longer study ...
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... discourses in several academic disciplines . And in our own discipline , it has shaken if not undermined the aesthetic , moral , and ontological principles that pre- scribed the ideological ... discourse participate in the PROLOGUE.
... discourses in several academic disciplines . And in our own discipline , it has shaken if not undermined the aesthetic , moral , and ontological principles that pre- scribed the ideological ... discourse participate in the PROLOGUE.
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... discourse participate in the construction of the world : They are engaged in shaping the modalities of social reality and in accommodating their writers , performers , readers , and audiences to multiple and shifting positions within ...
... discourse participate in the construction of the world : They are engaged in shaping the modalities of social reality and in accommodating their writers , performers , readers , and audiences to multiple and shifting positions within ...
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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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