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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... Presidential Address 1986. The Triumph of Theory , the Resistance to Reading , and the Question of the Material Base , " PMLA 102 ( 1987 ) , 281-91 ; quotation from 283 . By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest Texts and Histories ...
... Presidential Address 1986. The Triumph of Theory , the Resistance to Reading , and the Question of the Material Base , " PMLA 102 ( 1987 ) , 281-91 ; quotation from 283 . By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest Texts and Histories ...
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... resistance came to be posed in Renaissance studies were those of an opposition between subversion and containment . These terms , which appear to be residues of a Cold War ideology that had pernicious consequences in both international ...
... resistance came to be posed in Renaissance studies were those of an opposition between subversion and containment . These terms , which appear to be residues of a Cold War ideology that had pernicious consequences in both international ...
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... resistance so much as it is being displaced by a vision of the energizing and liberat- ing effects of emergent market capitalism . Thus , Greenblatt characterizes the re- lationship between William Strachey's account of the Bermuda ...
... resistance so much as it is being displaced by a vision of the energizing and liberat- ing effects of emergent market capitalism . Thus , Greenblatt characterizes the re- lationship between William Strachey's account of the Bermuda ...
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... resistance , sites that are of variable configuration , intensity , and effectiveness . He writes that The strictly relational character of power relationships ... depends on a multiplicity of points of resistance : these play the role ...
... resistance , sites that are of variable configuration , intensity , and effectiveness . He writes that The strictly relational character of power relationships ... depends on a multiplicity of points of resistance : these play the role ...
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... resistance and among their various conditions of possibility . The significance of such binary terms as containment and subver- sion , dominance and contestation , is in practice always relational and contextual ; their configuration ...
... resistance and among their various conditions of possibility . The significance of such binary terms as containment and subver- sion , dominance and contestation , is in practice always relational and contextual ; their configuration ...
Съдържание
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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