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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... practice in the rest of the book . This metacritical essay syn- thesizes my response to , and position within , the theoretical and methodological debates of recent literary and cultural studies . The xii To the Reader.
... practice in the rest of the book . This metacritical essay syn- thesizes my response to , and position within , the theoretical and methodological debates of recent literary and cultural studies . The xii To the Reader.
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... literary and cultural studies . The Purpose of Playing is intended as a contribution to the ongoing refigu- ration of the sociocultural field within which now - canonical Renais- sance literary and dramatic works were originally ...
... literary and cultural studies . The Purpose of Playing is intended as a contribution to the ongoing refigu- ration of the sociocultural field within which now - canonical Renais- sance literary and dramatic works were originally ...
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... literary studies in the American academy came to be centrally concerned with the historical , social , and political conditions and consequences of literary production and inter- pretation . From a multiplicity of sometimes convergent ...
... literary studies in the American academy came to be centrally concerned with the historical , social , and political conditions and consequences of literary production and inter- pretation . From a multiplicity of sometimes convergent ...
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... literary criticism . At the same time , these newer modes of criticism have variously reacted against and contributed to the intellectual ferment of the past two decades . This ferment , summed up in the word theory , has challenged the ...
... literary criticism . At the same time , these newer modes of criticism have variously reacted against and contributed to the intellectual ferment of the past two decades . This ferment , summed up in the word theory , has challenged the ...
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... literary criticism " with monolithic and teleological theories of " History " -visions of history that , in their unity , totality , and inexorability , can be grounded only upon essentialist or metaphysical premises.3 I assume that ...
... literary criticism " with monolithic and teleological theories of " History " -visions of history that , in their unity , totality , and inexorability , can be grounded only upon essentialist or metaphysical premises.3 I assume that ...
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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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